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Throughout my entire life, reading and writing has always been a major aspect of my learning journey. Starting all the way back to elementary school, I was introduced to basic concepts of reading and writing in all different types of ways. Every type of method a teacher would have us do had its own way of getting the technique or point across to the class in a way that the class could understand and retain it. I continue to learn new things about reading and writing today as I advance in my college career. As we progress in our lives, sometimes it is smart, and also fun, to look back at some of the times when you were learning those things and see how far you have come from those times. Not only do I want to look back at those times, but also I want to really think about how those times have gotten me to where I’m at today. …show more content…
Everyday, we would come into class and pull out or cursive book. Our teacher would tell us what page we were going to be starting on, and we would all flip to that page and begin our writing. Our teacher would walk around and make sure everyone was staying on track and made sure none of us had any questions. For the most part though, the teacher wanted us to learn how to do cursive ourselves so we retained it better. At the time, I was just doing what my teacher was telling me to do, but as I look back, there was a lot more than just simply writing letters in cursive on a dotted line. It was the beginning of my entire writing career. It showed me the fundamentals of writing simple letters that would later turn into words, and then into sentences. It gave me structure and guidance to what was going to come later on in my educational career as well as

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