My parents introduced and read Bob Books before I even started school. This has been the first ever interaction with reading and the way I started to learn how to read. I remember that the beginning books were simple and focused on learning the alphabet and occasionally learning two and three letter words. The books then became progressively harder and more complex. My parents progressed me through the Bob Books and helped me with them every night.
These Bob Books had been the first ever material that I read and I actually enjoyed them because they got progressively harder. This presented a challenge to me as I wanted to be able to read that next book. This system led to me working hard on my reading at a very young age and made reading
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They were the ones that carved out time every night to sit down with me in my room and read these books. They fully committed to making me a proficient reader and committed to my education. I am so thankful that they valued education and put that at the top of the priority list in my life. Education and reading was put as the number one priority very early on in my life, this precedent is what eventually turned me into a successful student. Also, constant pressure and oversight from my parents forced me to do well in school. My love for competition and natural love of learning drove me to be the best at everything I did when I was younger. My parents also encouraged me and enabled me to do whatever my passions and desires led me to do. Looking back now, another thing that I greatly appreciate is how much my parents pushed me while I was growing up and learning. At the time I didn’t exactly enjoy the extra pressure or push but them pushing me to go above and beyond made me thrive as a kid and wildly secede and everything I did, including reading and …show more content…
I thought they were being unnecessarily critical, too persuasive, and sometimes ever harsh when I didn’t live up to their expectations (obviously their expectations were set very high). They didn’t accept average, it was instilled in me that average was a bad thing. Everything I did had to be above and beyond what was expected. Now looking back I am so thankful that they did this because exceeding expectations gets you further in life. Being above average definitely has its perks and people who are average fly under the radar in this world. Additionally, average people don’t change the world. Ok, some of them do but most likely because of luck. It’s the extraordinary people that get to change this world, the ones that go above and beyond. The ones that don’t settle for average and work until perfection is achieved. I now have these principles instilled in me because of my parents and Bob Books and I will be forever thankful to
I learned to read like any other kid, starting in Pre-K, only reading super easy books, with maybe five to six pages. The pages mainly included pictures. Each year, the books we read would get harder and harder, eventually leading me up to big novels that I can read today. Ever since I was little, reading words has
My dad started reading to me when I was around the age of four or five. I was specifically interested in the book How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?. My dad read that to me probably every night for two months, until I could “read” it back to him. The reason “read” is in quotations is because I really only memorized the book and the order he would say the words, but looking back now, I think I give a lot of credit for that time in helping me stay ahead in my reading classes. Being able to recognize what certain words looked like helped me make new words and build sentences a little quicker than most kids my age.
The first book I remember reading was Go Dogs Go by P.D. Eastman. I would read that book once a day with my mother, and never get tired of it. Then other books like The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, Horton Hears a Who, and many other Dr. Seuss books came next. I couldn’t read enough of them growing up through kindergarten and first grade. Then all of a sudden I moved to Chelan and forced to read to meet my AR goal. Now, I am not trying to blame Accelerated Reader for my lack of motivation to read today, but I do believe it played a role in how I began to hate reading in elementary school.
Thanks to my parents pushing me to do my best, I have an outstanding work ethic in school and on the field. Because of this effort and work put in, I have been a captain on basketball, football, and baseball teams. Not only were my parents important factors but, so were my coaches and teachers. Coaches and teachers have pushed me to do the best I could and told me when I did things wrong, but praised me when I did them right. They helped to slowly build my character, leadership, scholarship and dedication to everything and anything that I do so that when I had to do something it was done the right way instead of halfway.
Like many children, I learned to read and write around the age of five at both home and school. I learned to read by reading Dick and Jane. The writing was simple, but I loved the stories. That was always my favorite part
Most of what I can remember from my childhood is being read to by my mom and her teaching me how to read, alongside my older sister. During the day all that I wanted to do was have my mom read to me, so she would. And every night before I went to bed she would let me pick one book for her to read to me. It was my favorite part of everyday. It wasn’t just at home that people would read to me, my grandma would too whenever we went to her house. She had this book full of short stories that always had a good lesson at the end. I loved hearing my grandma’s soothing voice right before I fell asleep. My favorite book was “One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish” by Dr. Seuss. Since my mom read it to me at least once everyday, I began to memorize it. I wasn’t actually reading the words on the page, I just knew the story so well that I could recite it.
From an English learner, now I’m an AP English student. My parents can’t help me in math, English, or science class, but they advice to use resources wisely. As a stressed teen, many times reassurance from my family motivates me to continue. Succeeding in my future rewards my parents on their support. Without my parents fighting for me to succeed, I wouldn’t be where I am
I learned how to read at a very early age. My parents taught me my ABC’s when I was two years old. They would read Dr. Seuss books to me such as “The Cat in the Hat” in which they would have me to repeat the words as the read to me. They also would read “See Spot Run” which became one of my favorites. As well as, “Dick and Jane: Jump and Run.”
I am Billy Bob Jr, I have been working on Mr.Green's farm for 9 years. I was sold to Mr.green with my Daddy because I was his apprentice as a blacksmith. I was bought with my Daddy because Mr.Green wanted me to become a blacksmith when I got older. Our life is not as hard and cruel as the field workers they got wiped all day and had to work realy realy hard. I was in a little warm hut all day helping my Daddy build tools for the workers in the field or to sell at a shop to buy our freedom one day.
My mother, would read to me Dr. Seuss. I recall her telling me about Sam I am, and his green eggs. I became an independent reader in kindergarten when I read Dr. Seuss's One Fish, Two Fish. While its 63 pages may not seem hard in retrospect, at the time I felt a great sense of accomplishment in doing that, because it was the first novel that I had read entirely on my own. The books I liked to read as an adolescent were primarily non-fiction books. It was always related to history. Whether it be the history of The Minnesota Twins or about the Titanic, I was always reading about history. I still read a fair deal of fiction. Our school took part in the accelerated reader program and I would always read the fiction books; Lemony Snicket etc; because they had the highest point values. Reading in classes has never been much of a challenge to me. Some of my favorite moments in school have been the moments where I was exposed to Hemingway and when I was exposed to
Like many parents, mine were supportive of my learning and development at an early age and as I grew, they read to me along with other learning techniques. My mother and father read various children 's books to me in their spare time; and after I had matured some had me read along as well. The books we read together consisted of fairy tale books and short stories such as The Turtle and the Hare. Reading together helped me learn a wider variety of words and inspired myself to pursue reading at an early age on my own. When I was around the age of four or five; my mother and father bought me the leapfrog read along toy as a birthday gift. The toy came with children’s books and a pen that was used to follow along as
That there would be difficult moments where I would have to work my way up and work hard for the things that I wanted to accomplish. They always encouraged me to keep moving forward with new dreams to accomplish one after another. My parents did all this because they wanted a better future for me than the future that they had for themselves at first. I say at first because today my parents have proved to me that anything is possible. My father might not have completed school but he is exceptionally intelligent as a business agent, including being the best of the best in his own job. And my mother, what can I not say about her. She proved to me that it is never too late to accomplish your dreams by going to college and obtaining her G. E. D., and knowing her she will most likely continue to a degree. Seeing all the things that they can accomplish makes me proud to be their daughter because they bring me hope. Them having lofty standards for me, allowed me to keep working harder for my dreams and even setting high standards for myself. A 70% on my report cards or even progress reports were not permitted by my parents at all. And if they did appear, I had better be prepared for the big trouble that I was going to be in. As a child, I didn 't really understand what all the fuss was about. But then I realized, the reason why my parents insisted on me having such high grades as I do now was that they were looking
As a little girl my understanding of literacy began with the alphabet soup. I vaguely remember that my mom would place the soup in front of me and I move the letters with my finger attempting to form words. My mom sat with me and spelled my name out I was so excited because I was learning. From that moment on my curiosity for literacy began. When my mom took me to the store I would ask for books even though I couldn't read but the letters fascinated me. The pictures weren't bad either. My adventure with literacy continued as I began kindergarten.
My family has always mentioned how hard they would work in order to do well in school and to make the most out of any opportunities they would get the chance to have. What I have learned from their footsteps, is that when I did well not only did I feel accomplished, but I made my parents
As a six-month-old baby books had opened up a whole entire new world of experience for me. My inspiration to learn how to read and write was encouraged by my Mother and Grandmother. This is because they read out loud to me before bed occasionally and gave me the best time of my life by introducing me to a library. By two years of age I developed speech and other communication skills. This helped me understand and develop a favorite book, “PJ Funny Bunny,” and I would stare at the pages pretending I was reading them. I would continually pretend to read with other Dr. Seuss books, Smurf pop-up books (I imagined I was a part of these for hours), sniff & scratches, and sensory books. I had just begun