The Importance Of Reading And Writing For Reading

As a fourteen year old I did not spend that much time reading or writing for pleasure, I usually would not even read or write for school. I spent most of my time watching movies, and television shows, along with playing video games. To me reading was to slow when I wanted to be entertained, and I never even thought to write since I never felt like I had anything worth writing. Eventually when I wanted to read, it would take me forever to finish, I would not fully understand everything I was reading, and because of this I would immediately be discouraged to continue reading. What allowed me to catch on to my poor reading skills was when I attempted to read for pleasure for the first time.
It was over the summer leading into my first year in high school, and I was watching television with my brother, when he turned on this show …show more content…
I took an embarrassing amount of time to finish each page, and most of the time once I finished a page I would have to re read the page since I was not able to fully understand it. If I had proper literacy skills I would not have had an issue, or at least a much easier time reading it. I finished a couple weeks before the premier of the second season, the whole reason of me reading the book was so I could continue the story instead of having to wait. I decided to reading the series before I would continue watching the show, only due to how better the novels were to the show. I never thought the book was going to be better than the show, but the show could not even compare to the book. The show was missing so much due to the fact that it was a television show, I never knew how great reading could be, despite all of my literacy handicaps I was immersed into one of the greatest fictional stories I had ever been able to witness. If not for that I would not have continued reading, and instead would have just stuck with watching the