When I was little, reading has been something that I always loathed in school. I had such hatred for it because it made me feel like a callow reader that has no clue what I’m reading. I also despised it because of past experiences that somewhat haunted me throughout my childhood. These two past experiences have made the most impact in the way I feel about reading which will explain why I absolutely hated reading. Back in the 3rd grade, I was the best student in all of my classes. I always had good grades in almost all of my classes, but there was one class I had difficulty with. That class was reading. Reading was the subject that I always struggled a lot mainly because of these four reasons. One reason is that I struggled with English. Ever …show more content…
Back in the 8th grade, I was once again a good student when it came to behavior but not that good when it came to the work in the subjects. I didn’t do that well since I was not interested and ennui by how the teachers teaches with their style especially my ELA teacher. My teacher was Mrs. Briseno. She was a nice lady but I was never interested in how she taught the class and me. She just talks in a quiet voice which made me not understand her and along with that, her room was pretty dark which made me pretty tired and sleepy during class time. This caused me to be pretty exhausted and not pay any attention to what she was teaching. I didn’t struggle that much when it came to classwork but when it came to independent work like quizzes and tests, I didn’t do so well. Because I didn’t pay enough attention to what the teacher taught us, I’ve gotten bad grades on most of the tests I’ve had. Finally, it’s the last month of the school year, it was STAAR time. The class and I took the test but before I started taking it, I came in unprepared. I ate just a cereal for breakfast which kind of made me hungry during the test and I slept at 11:00 the day before which meant I didn’t get that much sleep or rest to keep up with the test. So during the test, I was not on my highest potential or at my best since I was distracted by being hungry and tired and along with that, I couldn’t focus and figure out what were the main thesis of the articles! And because of all that, I couldn’t finish the STAAR test in time and didn’t answer 5 questions on that test. A week later the teacher was telling us the scores and then she called me up to her desk to tell me the score. She told me that I failed by 2 points, 2! When she said that, I already felt the massive amount of disappointment and how much I regretted not answering those questions and kept questioning what would’ve happened if I did answer them in time. That
In the essay titled “How Teachers Make Children Hate Reading” written by John Holt and published in Reading for writers in 2013, Mr. Holt discusses why most children aren’t interested in reading. Mr. Holt spent fourteen years as an elementary school teacher. He believed classroom activities destroy a student’s learning ability. Mr. Holt never let his students say what they thought about a book. He wanted his students to look up every word they didn’t know. People can learn difficult words without looking them up in the dictionary.
On October 10th, 2017 at Springhurst Elementary School, I conducted a “Reading Interest Survey” and the “Elementary Reading Attitude Survey.” These surveys were conducted on a 1st grade student, Jax, to determine what his feelings are towards reading in different settings, what genres he prefers to read, and interests. It was found that Jax doesn’t mind reading, but prefers a few different topics. This was evident through his raw score of 30 on recreational reading, and a raw score of 31 on academic reading.
Ever since I was a child, I've never liked reading. Every time I was told to read, I would just sleep or do something else instead. In "A Love Affair with Books" by Bernadete Piassa tells a story about her passion for reading books. Piassa demonstrates how reading books has influenced her life. Reading her story has given me a different perspective on books. It has showed me that not only are they words written on paper, they are also feelings and expressions.
Throughout my childhood I was never very good at reading. It was something I always struggled with and I grew to not like reading because of this. As a child my mom and dad would read books to me before I went to bed and I always enjoyed looking at the pictures and listening. Then, as I got older my mom would have me begin to read with her out loud. I did not like this because I was not a good reader and I would get so frustrated. During this time I would struggle greatly with reading the pages fluently, I also would mix up some of the letters at times. I also struggled with comprehension, as I got older. My mom would make me read the Junie B. Jones books by myself and then I would have to tell her what happened. Most
Reading is seen as a simple task that a person learns at a young age. This is not true. In the Introduction to the book called “Ways of Reading” by David Bartholomae, Anthony Petrosky, and Stacey Waite explain that reading and writing is a complex process that may be difficult to understand. Two terms mentioned heavily in this book are reading against or with the grain. These being two complex terms when it comes down to reading. In most novels the author gives the reader the opportunity to agree or disagree with them. Reading with the grain is taking the author’s insight, while reading against the grain is not supporting the author’s view but your own. Both of these terms have different meanings but when it comes down to reading both of these
From a baby to a grade schooler, I had an extremely short attention span; therefore, the only time I enjoyed having books read to me was before bedtime. Because I was energetic, my mother was forced to lock the door while she was reading so I would not scurry out of the room. Despite my concentration issues, I enjoyed reading books with my mother. One of my favorite books was The Complete Tales of Winnie the Pooh because I was intrigued by the characters, especially Eeyore. When I moved on from my obsession with Winnie the Pooh, I transitioned into an obsession with frogs. My mother started reading Froggy books to me, such as Froggy Learns to Swim and Froggy Goes to School. Along with Froggy books, I took pleasure in reading Curious George and The Rainbow Fish because I was an inquisitive child who was entertained by the iridescent colors of the rainbow fish.
No one could ever comprehend the hatred I had for reading- no one. Reading to me was just like being deathly ill, stuck inside, watching the neighbors play and know you couldn't join. On Monday morning I sat down in my teacher Mrs. Daniels class. I had a strange feeling reading would be an assignment coming up soon. I was dreading what I knew she was going to say next. “Class you will have 4 weeks to complete this book.” As I heard these words come out of her mouth I lowered myself into my seat like a turtle slowly going into its shell. I felt as if I was drowning and no one could save me until my life was over. Not only did I hate reading but I hated it even more when I was forced to. I thought in my head, “Why. Why make us read a dumb book that will do nothing but take away my social life.” Never did I know the book I was about to read would have such an impact
I started off well but things got so complicated with exams. I studied for the exams but some parts I just didn’t understand. When the exam comes, I performed badly with answers I should’ve gotten but forgot many of the materials I studied the day before the exam. I did not know much about the exam format in college and that makes it hard for me to study and the lack of knowledge about the subject got me worried a lot. I didn’t ask professor for assistance or get tutored when I needed it
When I was younger, I was interested in reading. I loved leisure reading and used to get different books from the library at least once a week. As I have grown older, I read dramatically less and reading is more irritating. I hate reading and sometimes get annoyed when I have reading assignments in class. Through the years, there were readings that I was forced to read and did not enjoy. It has turned me off from reading for the most part. I know that reading is something that is important, but I also know that it is something that I hate doing most of the time.
It was exactly four years when this happened, being an 8th grader. I remember what my teacher said to our class that day, “Guys, we will have a quiz on this tomorrow”, referring to the book we were reading the past few weeks. I wasn’t really in the mood to take that quiz because I didn’t want to review the previous chapters from the book again in order to remember some important plots from there. I was also tired after a restless sleep, meaning that it made it hard for me to concentrate on one thing that required patience and careful reading. The next day, I wasn’t ready at all. I felt the nervousness right at my chest as soon as my teacher gave me the quiz, and our class only had 30 minutes to complete it. Carefully, I decided to use my phone secretly to find all the answers that I could to finish the quiz immediately, but that didn’t happen. I managed to look up two answers before Ms. Moreno noticed me using my phone. She then took my phone and my quiz and said, “You have a zero now”, as she walked towards her desktop. That was a big failure for me that day, and all of my classmates started laughing at me and asking why I did it. I turned red with embarrassment and knew it was because I didn’t study. The next day Ms. Moreno announced that everyone had passed the quiz - except for me.
When I was younger, I didn’t like reading much at all. I always questioned my teachers what was the purpose of reading; I never got an answer from either teacher until I was in the seventh grade. Starting junior high school was different from elementary. In seventh grade, we were in our reading class for two hours a day. I asked the teachers why didn’t we have the privilege to stay in our other classes for two hours; I never received an answer from my teachers.
Since the age of eleven, I had hated reading and writing. It lacked excitement, so at the beginning of my sophomore year of high school, I did not expect my attitude to change. It was around
There are many different types of events that shape who we are as writers and how we view literacy. Reading and writing is viewed as a chore among a number of people because of bad experiences they had when they were first starting to read and write. In my experience reading and writing has always been something to rejoice, not renounce, and that is because I have had positive memories about them.
From my early years I found it extremely strenuous to comprehend and to gain interest while reading and writing. Reading, also writing has always been a challenge; this pushed me towards my interest in math and science. I longed to improve my reading level and my writing skills, but never could. To this day it affects my life, on my ACT scores I achieved a sixteen in English and a twenty in reading while I excelled in math and science scoring twenty-four in both. Reading and writing being life long skills I must progress and improve.
There have not been many obstacles that have gotten in my way for me to be a successful reader. I am able to confidently read "Hope in the Unseen" because it keeps my interest. I like the story. I feel for Cedric. I imagine and picture the story in my mind. When a large amount of reading is assigned, sometimes my brain gets exhausted and I have to take a break. Literally my brain gets tired. The reason why I have trouble getting all of my assignments in for "Writing and Being" is because the book does not hold my interest. I find it boring at times. I really like "Higher Learning" because the stories are like short stories, and they are adventurous in a weird way.