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Started Reading Some Spanish
My first language was spanish. When I was a toddler, my mom would read books in spanish to me. -
Kindergarden
I was an English Language Learner when I started grade school. I remember being pulled out of class to take exams because I was an ELL. I had a careless attitude for reading because it just seemed too hard to read in english. -
Struggling with Reading
I was reading one or two reading grade levels below my reading level. I disliked reading because it became something I had to do rather than wanted to do. My teacher during this time made it seem like a chore so I did not bother to like it. -
Catching Up
I started reading at my level by the time I reached the end of second grade because my teacher would make reading fun and we would have fun activities based off of books we read. She helped me one-on-one with my reading and encouraged me to practice at home. -
AR Readers
We had the accelerated readers program where we would read books then take quizzes and earn points based on how well we did on the quizzes. I began to feel more engaged because I liked quizzes. My teachers made it seem fun. -
Araceli the Star Reader
I became motivated by my teachers to accumulate as much points to win a prize so I would read intensively. It became fun for me and I realized that I liked learning from reading. I received awards and prizes for all the points I accumulated. -
Book Club
In middle school I was in book club because I really loved reading. I would read large chapter books within the adventure/fantasy genre. My teachers would praise me for reading large books when they would see me holding them in the halls and setting them down in class. -
High School
In high school, we read more informative text and I found it to be boring so I began to disengage from reading because I did not find it to be interesting compared to the type of genres I usually enjoyed. My teachers would focus on learning how to annotate informative text, cite sources, and write papers to analyze readings. -
Too Much Reading
In my last years of high school, I did not read books on my own time because I felt that I was forced to read too much that was not interesting so I stayed away from reading books when I did not need to. However, I would read news articles on my phone. I gained a lazy attitude towards reading. -
College
Now I am a good reader because of how much I practiced it and enjoyed it when I was a young girl. It is because of my second, fourth, and fifth grade teachers that I would read so much and enjoy learning through reading. Now, I read for my education and when I have the spare time, I pick out books I can learn things from and read them for my enjoyment.
