The subject of reading has impact my life tremendously. In Kindergarten I learned how write, count and say my ABC’s. By 1st grade I was reading small paperback books with little help. In 2nd grade I could read books a little bigger and more challenging. 3rd grade is when I started liking chapter books and loved to read books that I wouldn’t normally read. In 4th grade I liked Chicken Soup books I read those books majority of the year. In 5th grade I read twilight books closer to the end of the year I lost interest in those and started reading other books from a movie. In 6th grade I read Bluford High books, Sharon Draper books, and Sharon Flake books. All these books have expanded my vocabulary and imagination.
In Kindergarten I learned my ABC’s, how to count, read and write. Reading groups were made based on what level you read on. The books were always something we were familiar with. Sometimes we got to choose. We read aloud to the whole group and if we messed up we had depend on our group members to help us. We also made a book, on every page there was a different story by a different student. Kindergarten was like a pretest for all my other grades.
In 1st grade books got bigger, stories got longer and reading group started answering questions about the books. I read paperback books alone and it would take about a day to finish one of them. Our warm up was to complete a reading worksheet was given and read silently. By the end of 1st grade I could read on a higher level and was a wonderful writer.
In 2nd grade I was reading Junie B. Jones books, and Magic School Bus books. My teacher read aloud to us a book the class chose. In our reading groups we read nonfiction books. We started to learn how to summarize what we read. When we did writing prompts to revise and edit, we traded papers and took ideas from our classmates. Then we would have to read it over to see if it made sense to us since we were the writers. In 2nd grade I learned what books were interesting to me and what books I needed to try.
In 3rd grade Beverly Clearly books were very interesting to me. I also liked Wayside School books. When we went to library our librarian taught us how to find books. Once I learned that I started to read more than just Beverly Cleary books and Wayside School books which my teacher thought was good because I could expand my imagination with other ideas. We would read aloud to the class, everyday a different student was assigned to read and give a detailed summary about the book without using the back of the book. 3rd grade is a big part of my reading history.
In 4th grade I was still reading Wayside School books and Beverly Clearly books but I started to like Chicken Soup books. I really got into the books I read and could comprehend what was going on. In the Chicken Soup books I could relate to some of the stories in there which made the book more interesting because I was hearing someone else’s story that was similar to mine. Sometimes it helped me solve my problems. Summarizing was like a warm up every day, we summarized what we read while we were at home. We also made goals for how long we wanted to be on each book. That also encouraged me to keep reading.
In 5th grade Twilight books were the only books I read. The book was so interesting which made me want to read more because I thought I had to find out what happened after something. Closer to the end of the year I didn’t like Twilight books because I started reading Chicken Soup books again. The more I read the more I understood how attitudes could change anything or how losing a family member could ruin a whole family. I felt like an adult in the reading world during 5th grade.
In 6th grade I found Bluford High books, Sharon Flake books and Sharon Draper books. Those types of books were romantic, harsh, and sentimental at the same time. They were interesting to me because you never knew what was coming next so you would keep reading to find out. The books were realistic and I had a vision of everything they said was going on in the book instead of thinking about other things while reading. As I read these books I learned a lot about high school, the real world, and life in general.
Reading has made me the person I am today because if it wasn’t for reading I wouldn’t know what to expect in the life. I wouldn’t know how react to some stuff I see and hear if I didn’t read. Reading is a humongous part of my life.
