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Mother reading to me
Around 2000ish I can remember my mother used to read to me and my brother when we were little. After she got done reading the books she made use read them back to her so we could get better at reading. The one book that she used to make me read back to her was called through moon and stars and night skies. We read this book probably every other night. -
TV
Around 2001ish I use to watch a lot of kid shows when I was little. Some of the shows that my mom made me watch were things like Elmo, sesame streets and bob the builder. These shows helped me to read and understand English letters and number recognition. -
Kindergarten
Around 2002 I was in kindergarten and I went to Footville elementary school. Every morning as class started the teacher made us take turns on writing on this marker board she had in the room. She either told use couple words to see if we could spell them correctly or try to make us write numbers and add them up. -
LeapFrog
2002 I don’t know the exact dates but while I was a kid I use to play with the original leap frog a lot. I usually played the one leap frog that had the pen and when you pressed a certain spot like a word it word say the word. -
Legend of Zelda
One of the moments I remember that someone helped me read was sometime around kindergarten that my cousin Patrick showed me the legend of Zelda and helped be read and understand the context of it. So i guess you could say he was one of my literacy sponsors. -
Books
2004 4th grade I can remember going to the library and always checking out books like dairy of a wimpy kid, captain underpants and others books that I thought were intresting. -
IEP
2004 until I was in 7th grade I went to Orfordville elementary school. I had a speech and language person because I was in IEP. I was in IEP because, being adopted from Russia it took me longer to learn English and writing so from around 2nd to 7th grade I think I had to go to a office for like 30 minutes every week to see how I was doing with school. -
Occupational Therapy
2005 so as I was in 5th grade I was put in Occupational Therapy. The occupational therapy was almost the same as the IEP. In OT I was taught how to type and learned how write better. I learned how to type by playing a computer game that made you practice your finger location on the keyboard and how to type without looking. -
Chicago
in 2005 I went to Chicago with my grandmother, mother and my brother. My mother took us down to Chicago to learn about how other people lived and stuff. While we were down there my mother taught us how every one else speaks and lives a little different and taught me how to read the signs of everything we went to. -
7th grade
In high school around 7th grade I was in this special reading class like and I was always forced to read a bigger book every day. This was due to me being lazy and not wanting to read the 100 page books and instead I read the books that had around 50 pages. -
7th Grade Again
While I was still in the same class in 7th grade they also made us use the computers to read articles and other reading exercises. These reading exercises consisted of watching a video of what the topic was then to read a article and then do some sort of typing exercise. -
Cellphone
I got my first cell phone. I did not have the fanciest cell phone but it could text and call. It was a flip phone and when I had to text I had to write even more of an abbreviated word then I would on Xbox and facebook. -
Embarrissing
While I was in elementary and high school the one thing I found embarrassing was reading out loud this could be do to the popcorn game they played that chose who had to read next and me being in a different reading class then others while growing up. -
Facebook
While I was in 8th grade I decided to get my first facebook account even though I didn’t like multimedia at the time and thought it was complete nonsense. As I got it I learned that things weren’t spelled out correctly and people used a lot of slang words to. So I had to learn another form of typing and writing for multimedia -
Xbox 360
When I was in 10th grade I got my first Xbox 360. The Xbox 360 taught me to send messages with even more abbreviations and slang words than facebook. And while playing it taught me a different form of words from things like noob and pwned -
Manga
in 2015 I started to get more into reading mange ( which is a Japanese’s comic/novel) I got an interest in reading these because some were simple and fun to read and were fictionally stories and then there were some nonfictional ones that had life challenging stories and other stuff -
Difficult
The one reading task I find the most difficult is reading out loud. I find reading out loud is the hardest because I am not the greatest at punctuating words while reading.
