Reflective Essay: The Art Of Learning To Read

Learning to read is a skill many can obtain quickly or not so well. Myself, on the other hand was one of the many children who struggled with not only the thought of reading, but the actual process of reading not only a book, but sentences, word and sounding out words. Struggling through elementary with reading problems and on and off again help made it seem even worse. Going into kindergarten was intimidating, with all the bright colored posters with words even I couldn’t read. Having to be assigned seats next to strangers who soon would become my closest friends. Then came the group reading, when I in kindergarten and other levels of classes they put me and my classmates in reading groups depending on the level one is on. Now, I wouldn’t say I was at the lowest level, but I definitely wasn’t at the highest either, which is where I longed for. Once kindergarten passed and I had finally mastered the art of reading simple books such as If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. It was time for bigger and better challenges like first grade. Being in to do her own studying as well. This made it very difficult to learn outside of school. With my …show more content…
The words were longer and the books were thicker. The kids seems meaner and the teachers seemed stricter. Not only was I not ready for second grade, my mother had now made our home into a day care. Which meant I was no longer able to spend time with her studying my reading. Being in second grade I felt as if I was stuck at my middle level reading group and I was no longer going to improve and get into the higher level like I so badly wanted for myself. With this, I soon buckled down and forced myself to read and sound out the words on my own. It seemed to help because I soon saw my reading grades go up and was getting transferred into the other levels of reading groups. From that day forward I promised to always do things on my own and not count of people to help