My parents and I even had a system: when we had finished dinner, we would go into my room and snuggle up with a book that either they or I had picked. This soon became known as our “special time,” and every day I would look forward to it. My parents worked a lot during the week and many times I wouldn’t get to see them, but I could always be certain that when it was time for our “special time” they would always be there. Reading became much for than just reading for me, it became a way to connect to my parents in our all-so-hectic life. In fifth grade, my parents got a divorce and so did reading and myself.
Literacy at a young age helped spark my self-motivation to learn. Today, technology is playing a huge role in helping young children become interested in literacy. Children’s literacy is necessary to become a productive part of society. My parents supported my literacy in many ways. My mother read to me every night until I fell asleep.
At primary school I was able to read for myself some of the books that were meant for grade ones up to grade four leaners books and also had little assistant from my teachers and mother with all the words I did not know at the time. From then I had favorite books that I could read fluently and understand. These included Tom and Jerry, Cat in the hat, the three little pigs and much, much more that I used to read on a daily basis for my family and friends. The love of reading made me a very imaginative kid and a curious one at that, every week I wanted a different career when I grow up, which was very interesting and confusing also for my mother. Throughout primary School and high school my love of reading and writing grew and so, did the number of books and also my ability to pronounce and understand English.
Jim Keenan English 101 It Puts The Lotion In The Basket As most kids gradually start to read more and more as they mature, I was one of the few who didn't learn to enjoy reading until senior year of highschool. The teachings of Tom Alessandri were the sole cause of my newfound appreciation for literature. All it takes is the inspiration of one individual to turn someone onto reading and writing. Tom Alessandri was the last highschool English teacher I had, taking his Science Fiction & Horror Literature class. While many people would be discouraged by the title of the class alone, I was intrigued and immediately signed up.
They put little things into their writing, such as: “to the little people” or “to the hard working mums” on the dedication pages, severely empathizing with the parents on the hardships of child raising, they used guilt trips to make the mothers feel bad for “neglecting their children,” and even telling the parents they “tested the books on their own children,” all to convince the parents to buy more of their products! Did these strategies earn the women the commercial profit they desired? According to the article, not all of them did. The author points out that empathizing and actually teaching the parents and children was a much better way to sell more books. However, those who used the “guilt trip” ploy (Making the parents feel guilty for neglectful parenting,) did not sell many products.
It wasn’t until I started first grade that I finally started to appreciate some of my mother’s hard work. At the beginning of the year, everyone had to take a reading level test. I did well. I was able to use my reading skills. I would read to the class, I would read to my parents, I would read to my grandma, I would read to my brother and sister and I would read to my dog.
At the first second I got my assignment sheet, which required me to describe my literature life, the only thing came to my mind is how I develop my writing ability. I consider the word “literacy” as the ability to read and write as I read those narratives from Amy Tan and Min-Zhan Lu. However, after the whole week’s working on literacy narrative, my idea of it had been reshaped. I got totally no idea what to write about at the beginning, as I don’t think there is anything special about how I develop my reading and writing during my life. My train of thought just stuck there, until I asked my teacher about it.
My Journey Though the Text Just as we change or the music we listen to or the food we eat and the people we choose to be around, throughout our lives what we read and how we read is ever changing. As early as I am able to remember my mother would read to me. I am sure that she read everything to me from menu's at restaurants we were at to the shopping list that I was checking off at the grocery store to Dr Seuss books. I loved it when she read to me but she had underlying goals that as a small child I was not able to understand. Her goal was to get me to read all on my own, which I did at a very early age I think directly because of all the time spend with her reading to me.
She has always helped me with everything or anything that I wanted done. I can remember my grandmother sitting with me, on the back porch in the rocking chair, teaching me the letters of the alphabet and numbers one through ten. When I eventually learned to write the letters she began to teach me words. And oh boy, it was on then. She taught me how to write my name first, and after I had that down pat my name was written everywhere.
There’s a girl, Sissy, who answers right but the teachers don’t like her because she has imagination. They like boys like Bitzer who (as described) is cold blooded, as if his imagination was dead. Mr. Gradgrind liked Bitzer because he answered with just facts as he wanted. Jane Eyre is about a boarding school called Lowood in de 1800’s. There went poor girls and the conditions were really bad.