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Literacy and Me
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yummy letters!
I had not only used sight and touch to learn my letters, but ingesting them also seemed to work. On the nights that my mother had been going to school, she left my father to make alphabet soup for my sisters and I. With the letters in the soup, I would try my best to find any matches for any of the letters I could find around the room, whether I could read it or not, but matching them, and eating them somehow proved effective. -
sisters and sequencing!
Having turned 3, and my sisters starting elementary school way earlier than me, they often brought home different school work, and different flashcards of what they subject they were doing, ela being one of them. My oldest sister brought home abc cards that she had previously made for kindergarten, back to the house. Being the older sister, she would randomly quiz me to sequence the letters, and identify as many letters as I could, and to be able to recognize their looks. -
Writing!
My best course yet, kindergarten! When my teacher had brought up these thin sheets of paper that had traceable letters so that my class could practice actually writing the letters. First we were able to trace them, and then we were onto memorizing the letters shape and looks, and writing them on our own. -
Phonics!
I finally took the traceable letters, and were able to sound them out, and by doing so, I correlated these newly discovered letters with sounds and actions my teacher would associate with them. -
Raz Kids
Raz Kids was an online reading website that gave me a personalized set of books that met my reading level, and with all the foundations previously mentioned, I was able to skyrocket through higher levels from my classmates, and by being able to have a competition with reading, I continued to do it in order to beat everybody else without realizing it also benefit myself. -
Why not make my own?
In the 6th grade, my love for reading was slowly but surely transforming into my love for writing. When the time had come, I had begin to start writing on nonfiction situations, and being able to put together research, and write about it, gave me a new sense of what reading and writing could include for new knowledge. -
Quaratine Happened.
Being locked up in the house, my 8th grade English teacher pushed for us to continue to strengthen our writing skills. With the vocab that we were learning, she made us write our own stories, and it amazed me how easily I was able to allow my imagination to speak to me with limited resources and a criteria to meet. -
Annotation Nation!!!
For a summer assignment, I had finally been able to annotate and analyze a book on my own time, and truly take in the words and key points, as well as different aspects of just one book. Taking note of the jargon, motifs, and plot points gave me yet another aspect of what reading could be.