Why Do People Read And Write

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Why do people read and write the way that they do? Most people don't even remember when they read and write. As soon as you ask someone where they learned to read and write, some might automatically say school. Although that is somewhat true, if a person really thinks about it the answer is different for everyone. We pick up on how to read and write from the moment we are born. As we develop and grow we start to have a better understanding of how we read and write in part school helps us during this time. During this growth, there are many factors that influence how a person would read and write based on their experiences they have faced throughout their life.
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Lamb School, my godmother would make me read a different book around my level or one level higher each day every day. For each day, my godmother would ask 5 questions or more based on what I have read and if I got it wrong I would have to reread it again and again until I got all the questions right. This did not help me so much since I was already struggling with my reading in school. This was forced upon me because if I don’t answer the questions correctly I would have to eat dinner just a little bit later than usual. Doing this did not make me a fan of becoming an avid reader. I was told this was for my benefit, but it did not feel like it at all. If it wasn’t for my parents I wouldn’t have been able to get to the way I am in my writing and reading. My parents would tell me their stories every day when I was young until the time I got into high school. From what I had gathered from their story is that it all starts from reading and writing. How they read and write is very different on how the way I would read and write if you compare the two. Even though they knew how to speak English, Italian, and Spanish orally, but when it came to reading and writing they didn’t really have an understanding on how to articulate themselves. The reason for this

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