Growing Up Reading

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Growing up reading and writing weren 't always my favorite subject in school. It was hard for me when I first started in the early elementary days. Getting a reading assignment from a teacher was something I dreaded. I knew it was gonna be very important to fix that and actually get involved in my readings. I tried to find some sort of interest in the text and learn it. The reason I was like that was due to TV showing me everything I needed to see. I never had to read anything for information I would just turn on the news or ESPN. That 's just how it is now a day we have so many other resources for information other than a book or newspapers. My parents would always tell me that I needed to start reading more, even just picking up a newspaper …show more content…

So I started trying to pick up more books mainly sports novels that interested me during that time. Still nothing. I just wasn 't grabbing hold of the text like I felt most people did and the passion for it just wasn 't there. I continued down the road going to school then coming home and hanging out with my friends. I would ditch the books probably every night in middle school just to watch TV. I always thought ahead towards high school and college and wondered what I would do when I got to that stage in my life. I didn 't think I could really do it without understanding my daily readings in class. So then came the standardized tests to make it out of middle school. I wasn 't too worried about the math, but the reading and writing was a major concern for me. They didn 't give us much to study from so I just had to wing …show more content…

The first day was in August and I didn 't know what to expect whether it be socially or academically. So the first assignment that was due was the summer reading which I had expected. Reading the princess bride was one of the longest struggles for me. I found absolutely no interest or importance in the story behind it. To be honest about how bad I hated reading, I used SparkNotes for about 60% of the book with the bits and pieces that I would read. This is when I realized that high school would be a long run if I didn 't learn how to read correctly. I took a class for public speaking the following semester. Although it didn 't have much to do with reading I feel as if my reading skills were enhanced. We would have to read papers telling us about certain techniques great public speakers would do. This was something that I finally was interested in. Being a good public speaker is something everyone wishes they could do. So I just worked at it and read all the necessary passages. When it came time for our first public speaking assignment, I was calm and executed the paper flawlessly. This was because I read the assignment sheets and tried to fully understand what the task at hand was. Throughout the rest of high school, my reading interests did not improve much and I didn 't truly feel that I would be 100% ready for college. I did start reading a little bit more and have gained some interest over the summer. When we went to the beach I read a

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