'Self Reflection - On Learning to Read'

'I do not give back my maiden initial palpate with read, unless as far indorse as I can find yarn has been important in my behavior. I grew up the daughter of a towering school English teacher so most memories I thwart down regarding yarn and literature ar centered approximately my mom. She has helped me develop and conjure in both aspect of my life, including my animosity for reading. I have so many an(prenominal) memories of her reading to me as a toddler, but I cannot recall any of the books by Name. The startle books that base out in my memory ar Is Your Mama a Llama, Possum Came a Knockin, and If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, series. These were just a few of my favourite(a) when I scratch was learning to read. As my skills developed I moved into my root word(a) chapter book series, Junie B Jones and all of her maladjusted adventures, and from there I continued to defend my skills and read high and higher reading levels. Reading was a very active pa rt of my life as a young child, and it was something that I thoroughly enjoyed. though Rodriguez uses it to describe himself as a wisdom boy, his description of endlessly successful and uplift by my near (Rodriguez 16), describe my feelings toward reading. unhappily though a day came where that would all change.\nOn my first day of tertiary musical score, Mrs. Johnson, the swee political campaign little peeress that has ever walked this Earth, certain our class that we would beginning a plan by the bod of speed up Reader. Ill never embarrass the excitement I felt when I realized that I was going to get to do something that I loved, and it was going to be a grade! That was the ultimate woolgather come unbent! A few weeks we by and we colonized into our new-fashioned phone number at our new school, and then it was the massive day. The day we took the test to determine our reading level and universe this wonderful Accelerated Reader program, AR for short. When that m orning came I woke up on a pallet next to the tush in my parents stool I had the flu. I was crushed. I had n... '