My Writing Experience

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My experience with reading and writing has always been a good one since the day I first started. My mom loves education and has always taken it very seriously. This greatly affected my journey to learning how to read and write. Another thing that influenced me was how I was taught to read and how to enjoy it. I strongly believe that the experiences you have as an adolescent can influence the way you feel about reading and writing for the rest of your life. The first experience I had with literacy goes back to when I was first learning the basics. As I mentioned before, my mom played a huge role in my education. As a result, I spent a lot of time going over the things I had learned in school and making sure I understood what was going on. In addition to this, my mom always kept tons of books around the house for me to read. Eventually, it became part of our daily ritual to read something together. …show more content…

Starting in middle school, all the students were required to read a certain number of books every nine weeks. Once you finished a book, you were to take a test on it. Since my mom and I had already done a lot of reading together prior to this, my goal was much higher than most of my classmates meaning I had to read and test a lot more than they did. We also had to keep a journal where we wrote about all the books we read. I had always thought it was unfair that I had more work than others, but I did the work anyway because all of it was for a grade. Looking back on this now I can see that it was beneficial for me to have to read and write so much because I was able to get more practice on things I needed to work on like active reading and grammar

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