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Why Is Reading Important To Me
Every since I can remember reading has been a up and down thing for me. I always loved to get read to when I was a little girl and to look at picture books making up my own words to go along. Throughout the years reading has grown on me in many different ways. Some of my early reading memories were creating words with letter blocks with my mother, reading rhyming books that taught me the basic sounds such as “Chicka Chicka Boom Boom” and “Cat In The Hat” that helped me rhyme/blend words while in kindergarten. After that I advanced to higher level books in first grade I read “Junie kind of a challenge starting off. Once the words got longer and larger I struggled for a while. When it was time to read out loud I always dreaded it or tried

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