There are many ways to learn the art of reading and writing. You can learn from people, games, tv shows, and much more. Not only do you learn these skills but you also continue to learn new techniques and methods throughout your entire life. Although I have learned a majority of these skills at an early age, I am still learning new ways on how to read and write today. When I started to develop these skills, I was just learning how to recognize letters and how to hold a pencil. Now, as a college student, I can write multi-paged essays with ease and can identify grammar errors within sentences just by reading over the text. Even though I have learned so much from my electronics, family, and schools, I will continue to learn new ways of reading …show more content…
In the beginning of my English adventure, I watched a lot of tv shows like Sesame Street, Blues Clues, and Dora. Even though I was watching them just for entertainment, I was also learning how to read and write at the same time. Sesame Street helped me identify letters and numbers. The show also helped me link words with objects too. For example, associating the word apple with the actual fruit. Blues Clues and Dora helped me read sentences and made it fun to learn and pay attention. As I got older, new electronics helped me advance my skills too. Video games and apps provided me fun and interactive lessons on the alphabet and spelling. I remember playing a computer game called “Spelling with Tarzan”, it was basically a spelling game where you had to spell the word quickly or Tarzan would be caught by a tiger or a dinosaur. This helped me retain the spelling of words but it also helped me learn how to type on a computer too. And even today, apps on my phone help me advance my skills too. Having study apps for college subjects help me retain important words and what they mean and by having a phone that can access the internet allows me to reference English methods and strategies when I am trying to write an essay with a difficult …show more content…
Many of my teachers throughout school have helped me in more ways than I can imagine. In elementary, I learning how to pronounce letters, how to sound out words when reading a sentence, and I learned how to write the letters of the alphabet. I remember in 2nd grade, I learned how to write in cursive. Learning the art of cursive writing was actually really hard for me. I always had a hard time with uppercase letters and connecting them with lowercase letters. Thankfully, I had a teacher who realized I was having trouble and helped me master the problems I was facing. At the end of end 2nd grade, I was writing in cursive easily and continued to use cursive throughout the rest of my school career. But as each year went by, I ended up in middle school. Middle school had many new and different challenges that I faced throughout those years. The one thing I remember the most is the dreaded vocab quizzes. Oh how I hated those quizzes, but in the end they improved my spelling and introduced me to new words that I would use in the future. Even though those quizzes helped me, I’m glad I never have to take one of those again! Another thing that helped my reading skills in middle school was the Accelerated Reader program, or AR for short. The goal of the program was to read so many books in one amount of time and take tests on them to gain points. If you had enough points, you got small prizes
Reading,” she makes the argument that reading helps train the mind to become a better writer, develop “the power of imagination”(Winn, 255), and advance concentration skills. One of the major points presented by Marie Winn is that by reading children gain the “rudiments of writing”(Winn, 253). While reading, a child will recognize that a word is said in a certain way that will eventually translate into a child learning how to write words. For children gain writing skills by reading, Winn shows that by reading a child not only gains a beneficial experience but also a chance to improve their writing skills. In addition to improving their writing skills, a child can also develop an imagination through reading books.
During adolescence, I began reading and writing through a fundamental learning program called, "Hooked on Phonics." This program consisted of long hours spent reading short novels and writing elementary phrases which were commonly taught in the second and third grade. With the motto, "Improve your child's reading and writing skills in just four weeks!" I was bound to become the next Mark Twain. The method of this course specialized in the improvements of word acquisition rates as well as reading speed; however, it lacked in the area of teaching comprehension. At a young age, I was instilled with the dire need to be highly educated and although I was unable to experience a fun and adventurous childhood like many other children, I am grateful for being raised with a greater knowledge and wisdom than that ingrained in many.
Learning to read and write is something we all have experienced. Some experiences being difficult than others. As a kid, I can remember trying to read the daily newspapers, different types of magazines, books, and addresses on mail; basically, I tried reading anything that had words on it. My favorite thing to read were the back of cereal boxes. Nothing made me more excited than sitting at my white and pink Barbie table and chair set eating cereal while eyeballing the back of a cereal box. Only being able to correctly read one or two words, it was the first time I really felt accomplished.
Writing and reading are two essential skills that we need to have in order to succeed in any field of study that we have chosen. Without these two we would not be here, wouldn’t be writing right now and would be considered the lowest class of our society. There are different aspects of writing that each of us may, or may not, excel at. Some of us are creative enough to write short stories or even novels on fiction while others, like me, are better at writing essays. To accomplish this we have all had a person to inspire us, to drive us, to get us over the hump of confidence that we need to succeed. Still to be successful we need to count on ourselves to succeed.
At the age of three I was able to read the television guide to communicate to my parents on what show I wanted to watch. They did not believe I was capable of this at first, but I continued to this and they were in awe. In junior kindergarten my teacher was pleasantly surprised on how well I could read, and how much I enjoyed reading and explained to my parents how I was reading at a grade 2 level at the age of 4. This early involvement in my literature journey and this early introduction to reading made me enjoy reading, and enjoy learning, which continued on into my early elementary school
The process of pen to paper, page to eye(s), is the most crucial aspect of learning to read and write. Dennis Baron, a linguist who has studied literacy, and communication technologies once wrote “the computer, the latest development in writing technology, promises, or threatens, to change literary practices for better or worse, depending on your point of view” (qtd. in Writing about Writing 633). This quote has great significance to me in how one determines
Every person has their own unique way of writing which makes their writing stand out among the other people’s writing. Weather a person’s writing is full of high leveled vocabulary to a person use of complex sentences. Throughout the semester I had many times where I felt that my writing was weak at certain points or at times where my writing skills to started to improve. The major assignments and the short answer responses helped improve my skills as a writer. Even though all three major assignments helped improved my writing skills, the one that had the most effect in my writing was the report essay as it helped discover new methods while also the short answer response number 4 helped me to analysis images in an aspect that I did not know before.
In this paper, I am to write about my strengths and weaknesses in writing. This is not an easy task for me because I have never considered myself a writer. Reading other peoples thoughts are activities that are more my speed. I simply have trouble putting my thoughts into writing. Since, I do not feel that I have many strengths, let's move on to my weaknesses.
My journey with literacy has been a up and down process. Early on in my life literacy was just a tool used to go from day to day and make it threw my school work. I never saw myself as being one of those kids that could read for hours or write stunning essays. The building blocks of literacy were taught to me at my preschool, where they began to teach us the alphabet and taught us how to read basic books. We also began to learn how to write.
In first grade, when we were assigned our first list of spelling words, all of my teachers thought it would help their students learn better if they wrote them 5 times each or made sentences with them. Throughout the years, I can only remember of one teacher who made it enjoyable. It was in the fourth grade and I had Ms. Hinson. We had to create a fiction story about anything that we wanted, as long as we included all of the words on our list. Once we completed our stories, we got to illustrate a picture to go along with it. This, of course, was my favorite part because I loved to draw. It drove me to do my best on the paper so that when I was done I could draw the picture. I can’t remember to this day what the story was about but I do remember the feeling I had when I showed my mom, dad and sister. They were so proud of me. At the end of the year we took all of the stories we had made and published a book with all of them in it. I will never forget about how much enjoyment I got out of that assignment throughout the year. Due to the fact this assignment was given to me in fourth grade, I think it may have been too late to change my feelings towards reading.
I often think about the first time I realized I could read. That moment when time stops for a split second as I realize that I can understand the little squiggles written on a piece of paper. That magical moment that happens only once in a lifetime. Although I cannot recall the exact moment, I can remember the feeling of pure ecstasy that filled me up and completely overwhelming me. After seeming eternities of “See Dick run. See Jack jump. See May eat,” and so on and so forth, I was finally able to read on my own. I have discovered many purposes for which reading both practical and for enjoyment.
My overall writing skills are decent; there is an allowance for improvement. From an early age, I was required to write summarized essays. As children and young adults, my brother and I read an article from the newspaper daily and were required to give a brief report on what we read, and on occasion, it was in written form. Therefore, my critical thinking and writing skills are refined. I was exposed to the APA style of writing in my undergraduate and master degree courses. At times, I still must refer to my manual, although I still consider writing in APA style a strength.
This year, I've written and learned many new topics. I've improved in my writing and reading skills. Every year, writing becomes harder to understand and requires more focus. I have enjoyed a few writing assignments, such as the Wes Moore book project. It was fun and creative, I could draw, color, and do it my way. Although, I have trouble writing essays, I think I should work on that more. My grammar and punctuation also needs to improve. My writing has gotten some what better and my reading is good. I like fiction books that deal with science and fantasy. These are my favorite type of books. So far I've done some writing pieces that required to be written in different modes such as, argumentative me narrative. This is my midyear reflection
At a young age I was introduced to reading and writing. It all started when I learned my ABC’s; from there on I was hooked on learning new things. Not long after I learned my alphabet, I started learning to form words, and thus the challenge of learning to read and write began. Reading and writing seemed like the most confusing thing ever. Reading and writing became easier as I started catching on to the concept of putting words together to make sentences.
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.