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Learning to read
I loved to try to sound out and/or read things. I had limited books at home so the teacher told me to read everything. Street signs, food labels, everything. -
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A know it all
I was always called a know it all by my family because if someone pronounced a word wrong or used the word in the wrong context. Because of doing this I was made fun of and called names. -
Having messy handwriting
I love to read and write but when I was first taught how to write my handwriting was messy (like most new writers). The difference is my handwriting improved very little but was still legible. My aunt who was one of the women who raised me told me my writing was not good enough. It was tough being judged by the look of the writing not what was written. -
Using a dictionary
It was pretty embarrassing that I could read and write and even answer questions about what I read but I could not use a dictionary properly until 2000, I was in high school. -
SAT vocabulary
Learning the vocabulary for the SAT and trying to utilize early learning reading skills that I had been using or years -
College placement exam
Learning to read, write, and understand was always easy for me, or so I thought. I was humbled when placed in remedial writing. This happened basically because I was reading to just do the work not to understand. So I could not write or understand as well as I thought I could or should have been. -
Reading medical journals and other scientific material
When I started college I started as a biology major. The vocabulary and thickness of the material can be very intimidating. I still love science and love learning and reading things but when it is put in layman's terms. -
reading to children
The first time I read a story to children was eye opening and different than reading to myself. I quickly learned the energy you put into the story and the faces as well as voices and tones make or break a good storyteller -
First time trying to teach a child how to read
My niece Kayla was in 3rd grade and could not read. I did not yet understand that she needed to have a set of foundation skills that were not present. We started with sounding out the words but I soon realized she did not yet know all the sounds of the letters. -
teaching a child how to hold a pencil
I knew that in order for a child to learn how to hold a pencil they needed to be taught, but I did not how much instruction and time was actually put into it. -
S.P.I.R.E.
I was using the S.P.I.R.E. reading program to teach my low reading students haw to read. Using this program taught me to pronounce my phonograms clearly.
