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My Journey Begins
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How it Started
When I was just a little girl, I was raised by my parents but also raised around my whole extended family. I first started talking by picking up the words that they would say most when around me. My first words were food, mama, and cousin. -
Bedtime Stories
My mother used to read to me every night before bed. My favorite was My Monster Mama Loves Me So. She would read that to an endless amount of times before I fell asleep, When I started getting a little older I used to recite the story to her from memory. I couldnt read yet but I knew what the store was. -
Reading and Writting and Arithmetic
When I entered elementary school I learned how to read and write. I loved learning how to do my letters and numbers. I was a big fan at the time of writing letters. I wanted to write a letter to everyone. I had trouble spelling but I got better with practice. Reading the letters I wrote they dont seem to make a lot of sense because I was discovering how I was writing and what my handwriting was going to look like. -
2nd Grade Cursive
My second grade teacher wil always stick with me because she is the one that taught me how to write in cursive. Although I dont write like that everyday, I loved her methods of teaching it. Everytime you could perfectly write a full word in cursive you got a small piece of candy. The longer the word got the larger the piece of candy got. At the end, If you could write out the whole alphabet you got a box of oreos. -
Harry Potter
When I entered middle school, reading became very interesting to me. I started reading Harry Potter and finished it by the time I finished middle school. The grammar and words were mostly new and different for me. It truly enhanced my reading skills. I also had to do some book reports for my classes, which helped improve my writing. -
Computer Class
I took a class in middle school that had everything to do with computers. We learned how to use word, power point, excel, and other basic computer programs. This used my literacy skills because we involved ourselves with how computers affected our reading, spelling, and typing skills. When spelling on the computer there was always a spell check or autocorrect so you didnt think much when it came to spelling. -
Creative Writing
My sophomore year of high school I took a creative writing class. This was one of my favorite classes I have ever taken because it let me explore many different types of writing. I loved how we could take our words anywhere we wanted. It really let me explore rhyming, story telling, different type of ways of reading, ect. -
Yearbook 101
While in high school I belonged to the yearbook club. Throughout the four years I would do little things to help the book get completed but when my senior year hit there was only 3 memebers in the whole club so we put the whole book together. I was incharge of all the writing. Every single caption, post, paragraph was all written by me. I learned so much from this because I had to figure out a way to write practically the same thing in many different ways to keep it creative. -
Public Speaking
In college I had my first public speaking class. We had to write four different speeches than present them. This taught me to reduce my literacy skills meaning I had to say the same amount of information in a shorter amount of time with each speech. I loved being able to explore my skills with this. I learned how to write que cards and full speeches while trying to memorize them. The memorizing taught me the most about literacy skills cause I learned things that help me remember my writting. -
English 170
In this class, we read a lot of children's books for becoming a future teacher. I loved this class because we analized them and got to figure out what the deeper meanings of the books were. It was fun because it related to my childhood and I got to learn what I was actually learning as a child without even realizing it. -
And So it Continues
I have learned so much throughout my literacy path but I still have room to grow. With two years left of college and being a teacher for the rest of my life I will be learning new skills every day. Also as a teacher I will be able to teach new students how to read and write and help start their literacy path. The excitement that I have about how I have learned will hopefully be shown when I teach my students.
