Improving My Writing Skills

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When I was I was growing up, I think the first words that I read were “I”, “we”, “the”, “and”, “but” and also started writing these words, too. However, when I improved in my reading and writing, I started to learn more words such as “when”, “where”, “who”, “what”, “when”, and “how”. Over the period of times, I progress in my reading and writing skills not enough that it was proficiency but enough that I was able to understand that I was able to read and write. I was above other students when it came to reading but when it came to my writing skills; I was a little below than an average student. I needed more help than other students; I took EIP from elementary school all the way up until the end of high school. My writing skills and my English skills needed improve more. It helped me a lot in school but when I stopped, I think my writing and English skills went down again. They always told me to take …show more content…

I was in born and somewhat raised in Oakland, California but then I moved to Sacramento with my dad’s parents, my grandparents. I was really young when I left Oakland; I’m not sure how old I was when I left there. Staying with my grandparents I had difficulty writing and speaking proper English to teachers and my students because my grandparents were not speaking proper English out through my childhood so I got caught up in speaking the way they did. For example, instead of them saying, “were” for the present and “was” for the past, they would mix it up, “were for the past and “were” for the present. Since, I’ve been around them most of my life, I picked up that habit. It is challenging to be aware of what I’m writing and speaking to others so I need that extra push in order to accomplish my writing and English

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