Reading Memoir Research Paper

When my father was a child, my grandmother bought him Dr. Seuss books. Every night my grandma would read to my father. Once my father knew how to read, he would read stories to my grandma. He traded the Dr. Seuss books in for a series of books that held various fairytales. When my father went to college he kept the Dr. Seuss and fairytale books. My grandmother started a family tradition that my father would soon pass down.

I have gone through many changes with reading. When I was a small child at Kindercare my mom and dad enrolled me in a Hooked on phonics class along with my preschool class. Along with that both my parents always read to me. I loved books about monsters. My favorite author was the writer for Goosebumps when I was 4 years old and we read many books from the Goosebumps series.

To be successful in life, it is required to know how to read. Reading brings knowledge and knowledge brings intelligence, wisdom, and understanding. People learn from many different forms of literature. One of the most important kind of literature is children's literature. It is responsible for teaching children things like vital knowledge that are required for school and life. One man had an incredible impact on children's literature and the way children learned how to read. Dr. Seuss explored new ways to write children's books introducing rhyme and humor, and has helped children to learn to read in a fun and enjoyable manner.

My relationship with literacy has been a journey all on its own. From learning how to sound out letters and words, to reading my first sentence , I have developed quite a valuable foundation and platform, that will eventually guide me to success. I have had the pleasure of experiencing a love that just continues to blossom. A love that will never fail, nor will I fail it. This love that I speak of is my passion for reading, writing and literacy as a whole.

The Next big step for me in my reading happened in 7th grade when I found a new book series to read. The Percy Jackson series. There was something about the adventure books that drew me to them. It was like an excape from the world around me. It even went further with percy Jackson. Percy was a Demi god, that was dyslexic just like all demigod in the book series, I related to him because I had so much trouble reading like my class mates did. it would take me forever to read but I did it. And in 7th grade it showed on my end of grade EOG when my score grew by 13 points. Which was considered a

I have always been and forever will be in love with reading. I realized this when I was in fourth grade with my teacher Mrs. Gokey. She had light brown curly hair with a few blonde strands here or there up to her shoulders, stood almost 6 feet tall, and had the gentlest hazel eyes a person could have. Mrs. Gokey would read us books every Friday as a sort of treat for getting through the week. One of her first reads was the book "Mick Harte Was Here". The paper thin book was about a 12 year old boy, Mick Harte, who lived to the fullest as his older sister Phoebe would say, but unfortunately died because of a bicycle accident. Living life to the fullest meant not wearing a helmet, and which could of prevented him from dying so now Phoebe, our

There has been reading since the alphabet was first created thousands of years ago, but just recently, reading has taken on a new purpose. Reading in the modern day is a way to escape from a realty, good or bad, that people live in. People all over the world are suffering in their day to day life but now reading book especially fiction book allows them to escape. This helps people get over many problems such as depression, anxiety, and suicidal thought. Many people have written about this such as Tim Gillespie. In Gillespie’s article “Why Literature Matters” he states that “Literature does offer inexpensively a vision of other lives and other vistas. One of its potential benefits is to enlarge a reader's sense about the many possible ways to

Reading in the twenty-first century is most definitely more distinct than how it has previously been. We have advanced technologically in a very vast majority of things today, reading being one of them. More teens today read over the internet rather than have any physical interaction with a book. Reading is an important 21st century skill because it is necessary to be able to communicate, learn mistakes of the past, and participate in the civic government.

It's about reading. People read all the time. They read for information, for escape, for entertainment, for instruction, for guidance. They read recipes and tweets and texts. They read newspapers, blogs, and Facebook replies. In a recent survey by the google. The number of teens who actually read a book in the past year was 52% or more. I am one of those. As I consider my reading experiences, I realize they represent the journey I have to traveled, leading me to my current academic path.

Hello all, this is John Havard. This is my second class, returning to school after about an eight-year break. I have taken more than a few courses from Riverside Community College and Cal State San Bernardino in the past. I decided to go with Brandman since a few of my friends have attended Brandman and it seems like a great fit for me and my work schedule. As I work in IT at a school district and spend a fair amount of time in a windowless office, I like to spend as much of my free time as I can outdoors. As far as it goes for books, I don't really read them that much. I find myself losing interest and moving onto something else. The last book I read was World War Z. I believe I was able to finish this book because it was more of a

Growing up literacy has played an important role in my life. My love for literacy stems from my childhood. I remember walking up to my mother when I was a little girl, not even school age at the time and telling her, “I want to learn how to read.” She told me I would learn how to read, write and spell (the excitement I felt). My mother also gave me marble notebook with filled with my first name, last name, alphabets, sight words and sentences written with the dots to trace over (oh how I loved those dots!). She also used flash cards – alphabets, vowels, math and words. I watched Reading Rainbow and Sesame Street.

I 've learned that reading and writing can take me any where I want it to go. I can explore my mind to go anywhere by imagination, by reading and writing.However,My reading and writing experience since I was a kid until now I still having a difficulty.

As kids we are taught literacy without knowing it. Our parents or teachers have sat down with us and helped us write out our letters, sound out words, and form sentences. We were all given crayons at restaurants and a piece of paper that had fun games, cartoons, and tic tac toe. There are few people who have not learned to read and write, or have learned in a different way or at an older age. All of our experiences are different, and my experience has left me with my own literacy narrative.

The required readings that I enjoyed during the past year were The Great Gatsby, The Taming of the Shrew and Frankenstein. These novels had lessons to express. In The Great Gatsby, I learned that people change and if you live in the past you 're in for a rude awakening. Taming a woman is foolish and you 're never tamed its compromise you succumb to in the Taming of the Shrew. In Frankenstein, your passion can drive you to accomplish a multitude of endeavors for ethical or unethical reasoning, yet it will come with consequences. Gaining some moral understanding from these readings is what made them enjoyable.

We start our lives by molding our minds with the help of scholars along with childhood authors. Our minds grow through interactions and new experiences helping us with the basics. As in the walking, babbling that fills the first two to three years before the real learning begins. I feel our real development becomes prevalent when our eyes scan the pages of our first image filled book. As we slowly grow to learn new words, and have more experiences through the pages, our minds expand. While the words grow harder, the pages grow longer our literary development becomes advanced. As years have progressed I have increased my ability to read and write through the great childhood experience that is known as, going to school.