Autobio

I can honestly say that reading is not something that I generally enjoy doing. When people mention reading being a luxury, I see it as a lot of work and not something that I would want to do in my free time. I am not sure if I have this mindset because reading was hard for me or if it is just that we are “forced” to read in school, but either way it is just something that I would rather not do.

Reading time in class was always my least favorite part in school. We always had to sit quietly at our desks and read for a certain amount of time and it just seemed so boring. We also had to keep reading logs and have a certain amount of hours and books read by certain dates. Again, this all felt very forced and too structured for my liking.

Writing on the other hand is a little bit easier for me. I always enjoyed writing in class, especially when we would write stories. I know literacy is made up of both reading and writing and I think it is interesting that I only enjoy one part of literacy and not the other. I think that I like writing so much more because you have more freedom with writing.

The biggest thing that stands out in my mind about literacy was from when I was in elementary school. I had a harder time with reading and was slower than some of the other students in my class, so I would get taken out of class and work with someone one on one with reading. I would start with simple books and repeat those for a few weeks and then move up to harder books. I think this was really helpful because it kept me from falling behind. The teachers in this program really had an influence on me because they helped me to make reading easier and more enjoyable for myself.

Having had a hard time with reading and having helpful teachers really made me strive to make literacy more enjoyable for others. My goal is to make reading and writing fun for my students because I do not want them to have the same boring experiences that I had. I also want to make sure that I reach out to all students and they all have the same kind of help that I had. I do not want them to fall behind or feel embarrassed if the have difficulty with literacy.