as of october

“My reading history”

As a child I had the hardest time learning to read because I didn’t know how to pick things up.  My parents had to teach me to everything that I can do now like picking up a book.  Once I had mastered that I had to be taught how to turn pages, “Oh great more help from mom and dad!”  After a while I slowly began to pick up the process of reading independently.  Then I began to read “Dr. Suess” books like “Hop on Pop”.

            Throughout my school years I have always been pushed to read, I did not like to be pushed to read.  The more that I was pushed the more I was being pushed from liking to read and soon I began to drop my reading level because I just stopped reading.  My parents got worried like they always did and asked my teachers if I could start to read smaller books like” Clifford the Big Red Dog” so that I would like to read again.  It worked for awhile but, I began to get jealous of my friend because they were reading these huge books like Harry Potter.  I did not want to read “baby books” as I had called them.  I wanted to read books like my friends.  So I gradually began to increase the size of my books.

            In my middle school years, I was just beginning to like books ever since I met one teacher named Mrs. Holly Strobel.  During my experience with her my eighth grade year she was always there for me whether I needed help or not.  In the beginning I was always asking questions but, toward the end of the year I began to come to her less.  I was doing very well in middle school because of her.  Also what had surprised me was that I was having surgery in April and I was stresses and I was still making Honor Roll.  Mrs. Strobel was one teacher I will never forget.  She inspired me to read books by John Steinbeck, Jerry Spinelli, and Avi.  She gave me a suggestion of a series of books called “The Bluford Series”

Now that I’m in high school I’m reading very thick books.  I’m also reading practically anything that I want except for those Harry Potter books they never really interested me.  I got my reading level up to a ninth grade reading level and my writing is on and eleventh grade reading level because I like to read so much.  So far in the school year I have read five books in the five weeks we were in school.  On top of that I’ve gotten my mom to start reading again.  Some of the many books that I have read now are: “The Ax”, ‘Inkspell”, ‘Inkheart’, “Autobiography of my dead brother’, “A shot in the dark”, and “A series of unfortunate events the bad beginning”.  Those are the books that I have read so far this year.