Literacy Timeline - Gabriel Toledo

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    Getting Stories Told To Me

    When I was little before my grandmother passed away she would always tell me stories, I don't remember much about the stories besides something to deal with the woods behind her house.
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    Reading Newspaper

    When I was little I would sit at the kitchen table in the morning reading the newspaper with my great grandmother and grandfather. My parents told me I would sit there all morning reading the newspaper till about 11:00 A.M.
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    Dairy of A Wimpy Kid

    Before my 7th grade year Dairy of A Wimpy Kid was my favorite book of all time. I would constantly read them in and out of class even though I know it wasn't the best book to read. At the beginning of my 7th grade year I just quit reading them.
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    Guest Speakers

    Any guest speaker inspires me because if gives me different point of views on how everyone's life is affected by different things then other. Listening to others talk about how their life has been sometimes makes me think different on other people.
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    Little Brother

    Ever since my little brother was born I would always talk to him and he started picking up things, also he had a Micky Mouse book and he would always get me, my brother, or sister read it to him almost all the time.
  • Movies

    Movies
    Watching a movie that is based on a book can be fun because after you watch the movie you can go read the book, There has been only 3 movies that I have read and watched the movie, and I hope to watch more movies and get the books after.
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    Writing

    Ever since 8th grade till now I like to write a lot more than I like to read. Now when something is wrong or I have nothing to do then I will just start writing something random and continue with it.
  • Reading Captions

    Reading Captions
    Just this year while I was watching Netflix, I decided to turn on the captions and I would read the caption. Now I just like watching movies and reading the captions.
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    Ashfall

    I went to Upward Bound this summer and in my English class that Mr. Johnson was teaching had me read was Ashfall. The book is really good and it was a book that I got into and wanted to continue to read the book.
  • Footloose

    Footloose
    I went to watch footloose with upward bound this summer at Jenny Wiley and it really inspires me, because they know there phones and the songs and everything during the whole show.