My Family's Influences On My Literacy Development

Everybody learns in a different way. Some people learn visually, some learn auditory and some learn through kinesthetic style. The best way to learn would be through the combination of these three learning styles. Using these three learning styles, visual, auditory and kinesthetic, I developed literacy. Along with traditional, nontraditional ways of learning also played a big role in my development and acquiring literacy.
Family’s Influences on My Literacy Development
I was raised in a middle class joint family system. My family have a significant influence on how I have turned out. They have influenced my personality, my emotional development, my habits, and a lot of other factors of my overall development. As a youngest child in my family and only sister of five brothers, I have always been given assistances, watched over, and taken care of a lot. I have learned a lot from observing others and spending time with my family. Before I even started school, I knew the alphabets. It was because my brothers would sing the alphabets to me and than request me to repeat after them. The repetition and singing style of learning helped me to learn the alphabets. The rhythm of the singing improved my memorization of those alphabets’ letters. I was raised in a small district that no public library, children were not provided with …show more content…
At the age of 5 or 6 children would start school and go into first grade directly. Before I started the first grade, I knew the alphabets, understood the counting, and the place value concept. I understood these concepts because my brothers would take me outside to the field and play with me to count the birds or trees and ask me questions such as if out of 10, 6 birds fly from the tree, how many would be left there. They would also ask me the color of the flowers. Having these fun exercises of learning with my brothers increased my interest in my surrounding and made me curious to know