Books

Reading History Timeline

  • Elementary reading challenge

    Elementary reading challenge

    In elementary school, they had students do independent reading challenges for prizes. I was always excited to participate.
  • Speed reading

    Speed reading

    In class, they would sit one on one with every student and had us speed read a passage outload to the teacher. Between my speech disorder and my nerves of being time, I hated this activity.
  • I read a book about Roberto Clemente

    I read a book about Roberto Clemente

    This was the first book in which I was able to see a Puerto Rican representation. It was nice to see someone in my culture represented.
  • The Outsiders

    The Outsiders

    This was the first book I genuinely enjoyed and looked forward to reading for class.
  • Began learning to read in Spanish

    Began learning to read in Spanish

    I took Spanish classes in high school and I was able to broaden my horizons of the books I was reading.
  • Wrote my own novella for class

    Wrote my own novella for class

    Our teacher had us write our own novella for class based around the heroes journey. I fell in love with the character and story building process
  • Learning to sign a book in ASL

    Learning to sign a book in ASL

    For a ASL course we had to learn how to sign a children's book. It felt like a different way to introduce books to students.
  • Teaching my nephew to read

    Teaching my nephew to read

    While introducing my nephew to books, seeing his reaction to it all helped me appreciate reading.
  • Started to read for pleasure again

    Started to read for pleasure again

    For many years, I did not read any books outside of school and work until I started setting goals for myself on how many books I can read in a year.
  • Started to read books with Audible and got a Kindle

    Started to read books with Audible and got a Kindle

    Before I started to read books these ways I was strict on only reading paper books. I realized there are a lot of different ways to read books.