When I was a preteen, my parents thought that reading as a good habit needed to be fostered from my childhood. Therefore, I had bedtime stories since I was three years old. My parents would prepare different stories and read for me everyday. The books at that time always had more cartoons than characters, and my parents would teach me to recognize characters in the books.…
My grandfather had always told me to if you don't pray 3 times a day your relationship with god will not be good.…
I like to read a lot. I’m an 8 as a reader in eighth grade. I could read since I was in kindergarten, so I thought I was more superior than the rest of my class, which made me want to read more often.…
Being read to at night can be one of the best ways to go to sleep. I remember when I was a child when my mom would read me to sleep. It was one of the only ways I was able to sleep. My mom’s voice was so soothing and relaxing. I could hear her voice all day and night with no problem at all. What I liked about her reading to me was that she really engaged me with the story. Either by doing sound effects or saying something very loud or quiet. There were also nights where my dad would get involved. I loved it when they both read to me. It felt like a good family bond. All this happened in the house that I lived in my whole childhood. As I got older I got less interested in my parents reading to me at night. I would prefer watching television…
Although I don’t remember exactly how I learned to read, I guess it sort of came to me as a little child when my parents used to read me prayers and stories from the Bible. In middle school, reading was essential in getting a good grade for English with the "Accelerated Reader" system being implemented at our school. Basically, it was a online program where you would be able to take tests on books once you have read them, and each book had a certain amount of points based on its difficulty and length. Every semester, you needed to have a certain amount of points in order to get an A in English, and I always made sure too reach the point goal every year. My parents are the main reason of my success, and I will be forever thankful for the books they made me read and also for my success of…
The first books I ever started reading were Winnie the Pooh and Dr Suess books. When I was young my parents were really good about getting me started with reading different books and for a long time I loved reading, as long as it was books I got to choose and enjoyed reading myself. Once I got further along in school and they started mandating what books we had to read I got to the point where I didn’t find reading enjoyable any longer. I didn’t like most of the books my teachers were picking for us to read so I felt like I had to force myself to read them and it caused me to even stop reading books outside of school…
In a way, my taste for books have gone astray since grade school. I had a passion to read. Then it became hard to find books that motivated me to keep reading. As a child reading was fun and easy, now it is tedious and boring. I cannot find a book that interests me as much as they did when I was younger.…
By the time I was in the 5th grade I had already been reading a lot of books. Many of the books were interesting, some not so much. Some were also simple, but most were difficult. I had this one book I always favourited called, Diary of a Wimpy Kid. It was my childhood…
At the time, my reading level consisted of fat cats that sat on hats, but my dad took it upon himself to introduce me to other books--novels, comics, Vietnamese stories--and reading became an entirely different experience. When Despereaux got thrown into the ominous dungeon beneath the castle, my covers were tugged up to my chin; when The Adventures of Tintin detailed his close escape from a band of gangsters, my toes curled into the sheets; when…
My family was never a big reading family. My mom always falls asleep when reading books and my sisters absolutely dread it. My dad is too busy to read and my grandmother only reads the closed captioning on her TV. I was basically raised to not read. I always, fortunately, was an average or slightly above average reader, which helped as I aged in my education process.…
Growing up I read almost everyday. Reading took me to places I never thought I would go. I've been an alien fighting against others to save earth, a lost bird looking for my mother, a highschool kid going through what every other high school kid goes through. Of course that was before technology took over my life but I still manage to pick up a book every now and then.…
While you are enjoying the quality time with your children as you read aloud, you will also be fostering a love of reading that transcends boundaries. Learning to love books at a young age will enhance the children’s desire to be an avid reader as they mature. A love of literature can take a child to unfathomable heights, allowing them to soar to faraway lands of make believe.…
When I was younger I used to love to read. My mom is a big reader in our family. I started to not like reading when I got older because I felt like reading was not for me. Another reason I don’t like read is because I never understood what I was reading. Now I read when I feel like reading. Ever since I got older my reading has changed from a love to hate relationship.…
After learning sight words and learning how to read by the time I got into second grade I started reading chapter books like Junie B Jones, Captain Underpants, and Diary of a Whimpy Kids. We always had homework to read for at least 30 minutes every night with our choice of reading. On top of just class work my mom would make me read another 15 minutes before I went to bed. Chapter books really challenged me because they were longer than what I was used to. When we went on family trips out of town, I would read license plates and road signs. Before I knew It I was saying and spelling all these different…
I 've loved to read and write ever since I was taught my ABC 's for the first time. It 's been a huge part of my life in a lot of different aspects. I learned how to read when I was three years old because I went to a daycare where I was the youngest kid and the only one who couldn 't read. Reading and writing just stuck with me after that. After I started reading better than my older daycare-mates, school was ready for me to conquer. The school put me with older kids right away and I was in English class with 3rd graders when I was in kindergarten. It helped me out with making friends and I always got along with older kids better than my own classmates. Elementary school is my favorite time of my life so far, because of all of the little things I learned from school and the kids that were around me and I don 't think it would have been even close to how fun it was if it weren 't for me being able to read so young. My love for reading stayed with me through junior high and high school too. I started reading more historical and biographical books than adventure and story books as I got older. My favorite books went from the “Harry Potter” series to Albert Einstein and Abraham Lincoln biographies. Starting in high school too, I got more into writing than before. I would try writing stories when I was in 4th or 5th grade, but I could never write more than two pages without me changing the whole story because I didn 't think it was cool anymore. So, I never really thought much about writing until I enrolled in our school 's journalism and media literacy courses. This class was in charge of our school 's newspaper and designed our yearbooks and programs for school events. I ended up being an editor for the paper. My job watched over all of the sports stories and events around our school and was in charge of making sure the Sports portion of the paper was sleek and…