Friday, September 21, 2012

Literacy Timeline


My Literacy Timeline

When I was younger I always loved reading books. The first book I remember my mom and grandma always reading to me was the creation of the sleepy bear dunes. It was a mythical story about how it was made and either my mom or my grandma would read it to me almost every night.

I also loved another book that just for the pictures in it.  It showed all of these cool animals and how they would live. I never could remember the name of the book I just knew it as the book with the animals in it.

I started to like books early on because of pictures mostly. The understanding of what those pictures were and what they meant came later on with the help of my mom. So I loved to see all the animals and funny pictures in all the little kids books that we had.

As I grew older I began to read quite a bit. I loved reading mystery and adventure books. Books like the Michigan Chillers and American Chillers series. I’ve read almost every one of them in both series.

But later on around 7th and 8th grade I started not to read as much. Playing sports became a bigger and more exciting thing for me to do. So with school and sports, the time for reading just wasn’t there anymore.

Once high school came around I didn’t really read at all anymore. The only things I read were the books that 
I had to for school and they didn’t interest me. That made me start to not like reading.

I never had time to read anything that I wanted. I had school, sports, homework and now a job.

So now my understanding of literature/literacy started to come from watching TV and movies and also listening to music.

But now that my sports are done since I’m in college, I'm hoping to get back to reading more.


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