Overcoming Obstacles In My Reading Career
Reading books became very challenging for me because it was just the thought having to read out loud that made me not want to read because I felt like I was going to mess up the words and not sound articulate. The first time I read a book in eighth grade I remember having the feeling of wanting to read more books. Reading is more than just opening the book and looking at the words it’s all about taking time to understand how and why the author chose to write the book. When I started to read books, I felt as though the world around me was nonexistent. Reading took the expectations of just reading to getting a better understanding of the world around me. Although I wasn’t much of a reader at first my eighth-grade teacher Ms. Copeland taught
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When I would read the words some of the letters would be mixed up and I would get confused as to what I was reading. It was a form of dyslexia I would get many letters mixed up such as b and d with having the words mixed up I would have to re-read the entire paragraph to understand what I was reading. I learned how to slow down my reading by having a piece of paper over the paragraph or book I was reading to help my reading become enhanced. Having done this, I would become a better reader. By doing this I developed the necessary skill to become a better reader and to learn to read aloud without messing up specific words in a reading. Reading books became easier to do when I took my time and analyzed the reading. My mom has played a huge role when it came to English because she influenced me to continue reading although I did not like to read but she made me read everything around me because when I was younger I always had problems with reading because certain words I could not comprehend and by having people in school to help me I was able to become a better student in English and a better reader because of that. All in all reading has become a major part of my academic career because it took me levels that I was not able to reach until I started
When I would read the words some of the letters would be mixed up and I would get confused as to what I was reading. It was a form of dyslexia I would get many letters mixed up such as b and d with having the words mixed up I would have to re-read the entire paragraph to understand what I was reading. I learned how to slow down my reading by having a piece of paper over the paragraph or book I was reading to help my reading become enhanced. Having done this, I would become a better reader. By doing this I developed the necessary skill to become a better reader and to learn to read aloud without messing up specific words in a reading. Reading books became easier to do when I took my time and analyzed the reading. My mom has played a huge role when it came to English because she influenced me to continue reading although I did not like to read but she made me read everything around me because when I was younger I always had problems with reading because certain words I could not comprehend and by having people in school to help me I was able to become a better student in English and a better reader because of that. All in all reading has become a major part of my academic career because it took me levels that I was not able to reach until I started