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Personal Narrative: Learning To Read And Writing In Spanish

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Learning to read and write was a great experience for me especially since I learned to read and write in Spanish before learning to read and write in English. I was taught to read and write in Spanish from kindergarten to the third grade, and then I was introduced to English in the fourth grade. In the fourth grade I was placed in a bilingual class that introduced me to reading and writing in English. It was not too difficult learning the basics since I already knew how to speak English. This did not change the fact that I had a few struggles along the way. Learning Spanish before English made pronunciation and spelling difficult for me due to the different rules of grammar.
It was not until the fifth grade that I became interested in reading.

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