My Reading And Reading

“Brown Bear, Brown Bear, what do you see? I see a red bird looking at me…” (Bill Martin 1) When I was told to select a book I would choose this one more than any of the other books that I owned. Reading has been something that I have enjoyed doing ever since I was really little, and I still enjoy it today. Reading and writing areis a skills that I think that I have had since I was in Elementary school. Between reading and writing, I like reading much more than writing.When I was really young, my parents would read to me most nights. They would tuck me into bed and then read the book that I had picked out for that evening. The book was most likely Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin, Jr. or Moo Baa La La La by Sandra Boynton.

The story time in the evenings changed to me reading part of the stories once I was a strong enough reader. Once I was able to read short books with small words, I would read them to my little sister. She would usually listen, or at least I thought she did at the time. When I started to learn letters in school, I would go home and show my parents my new skill. At the time I am sure that they pretty much looked like scribbles, but I was really proud of those. By the end of kindergarten, my letters looked a little better and I was starting to write small

I would constantly have a book with me so I could read whenever and wherever I was. Teachers occasionally had to tell me to stop reading and listen to what they were teaching. My favorite classes were English and Literature because those were the classes where I got the best grades. I liked English because I could write sometimes; additionally I liked literature because I could read and write it down as a reading log. I liked writing a little but only when I could relate with the topic that I had to write about. When I didn’t know or like the topic, I did not enjoy writing the papers that we were