Why Reading Is Important

Growing up with my parents, I found reading to be very fun but for religious purposes and newspaper about the incidents taking place in certain countries. Through my parents, reading started to seem like it can be beneficial if we want to know what is going on in the world and the rules and regulations of one’s religion. Although I was required to read many books for school, my parents reading habits made me feel as if I should copy them. My mom and dad would always read books or newspapers at a certain time and sometimes discuss it with each other. My parents occasionally told me that I should leave aside school books at times and read the books they do because I can learn a lot and discover many things I did not realize before and

Reading any books, always left me sleeping. I cannot finish reading non-fiction texts unless I find it so interesting. I understand the text more when I read slowly than reading it fast because I tend to be more focused when I read it slow than fast and I am able to take note as well while reading it. I am a passive reader because I usually read simply to get through the text or article and I pay a little attention in identifying the topic sentences and main ideas as I don’t find it interesting to read.

Do you remember that one person that made you just absolutely love reading? Everyone knows it is not easy learning how to read and that is why most people dislike reading. For me, I had the same exact problem, but I had someone that helped me enhance my reading and made me love it, my grandma, also known as my superhero.

Throughout my life, I have remembered times where someone has read to me or I have read a book that has impacted me. From the time when I was three and my mother would read to me, to today. When I was in kindergarten, I didn’t like to read. I believed that reading was unexciting and that it was a waste of time. Most of the time, I would watch television when I came home from school. Since I didn’t like to read and would never practice reading, I had to acquire help from one of the teachers who would take me out of the regular reading class and she would teach me how to read at my pace. Even though I believed that reading was unexciting, I love to read now.

Reading and writing are both important; you can’t have one without the other. They are skills that are increased constantly due to little things that most times are not noticed. Whether it is from a book to a poem, there will always be a way that it helps out your school performance. Reading and writing in general only helps absorb information, and enhance leisure or school related writing tasks. It has also made life itself so much easier because reading and writing are so beneficial for school and for life. How much you read and write today, will somehow affect your future job, family, position, or even your salary.

Have you ever been lucky enough to have a best friend that is your personal educational inspiration? When I was younger, I had a best friend that loved to read. She would have multiple books that she was reading at once and I would always make fun of her for reading so many books. She would just come back with some witty remark about how reading is good for your mind. I was about eight years old when she would say these things to me. I would just brush it off and think “oh whatever, I don’t need to read books to help my learning abilities”.

Like most of you, I’m a voracious reader and have taught myself many things throughout my life, whether I thought of these pursuits as study or not. I began gobbling up books up before I was in Kindergarten and have continued to devour them until now, regardless of where life took me along the way.

I don't recall reading a lot as a child now that you think about it I don't believe I read much at all even in school. When we were giving a reading assignment I thought to myself why should I read the book when the movie is quicker. Now as an adult I view reading differently. Now that I have become a parent I hope that reading is more important to my son. I read children's books to him I can only imagine the thoughts that run through his head while his imagination runs wild now. I realize that television rots the brain and reading nourishes it. I view the mind as a functioning system of cogs and sprockets that every time you read it rotates and gets the motor running. Meanwhile taking the lazy way out and not feeding your brain only causes it to deteriorate and rust.

Students believe that they will not succeed due to their peers thinking otherwise. Having an IEP made me realize how society underestimates my abilities. “An IEP is an important legal document. It spells out your child’s learning needs, the services the school will provide and how progress will be measured” (Stanberry). I had to take different classes since the beginning of elementary school to improve my reading and writing skills. The classes that I have taken to improve these skills have impacted me in a positive and negative way.

Not everyone enjoys reading, some people hate it and other love it, because they feel as if they’re the people in the book going through whatever the book says. Another thing is that not everyone has compassion, they grew up with a “cold heart.” Meaning they never had any type of emotion or feelings towards other people who are experiencing a bad time. But with the help of literature some people start to understand and are able to comprehend what others feel and how they are able to help, it makes people grow a heart.

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read, “wrote Mark Twain. No matter what part of the world, the different cultures and languages, there has and always will be the written form that must be read to understand our human counterparts and history. Reading can be traced back as far as 3100 BC with content written on limestone and still very much used to day with technology as simple as a text message. The most commonly used language both spoken and literary around the world is English. Growing up in Jamaica, my first experience with literary content was a mixture of English and Patwa, which is a Creole-based language with a predominate English roots. I have been fortunate enough to receive the education necessary to be able to communicate and advance in today’s world through reading and writing. My encounters with words and memories have vastly shaped my academic life.

Reading and Writing matters a lot in today’s society to be successful. I interviewed three individuals on their perspective of reading and writing. Here is a little about them. I first interviewed my cousin LaTeeka Fullum in person. She works at University Hospital as a patient care assistant in the Seidman Center . My cousin LaTeeka has a warm heart; for saving lives. The second person I interviewed, also in person, was my best friend Jessica. She is a registered nurse and works at Cleveland Clinic. Jessica loves spending her time making a healthy lifestyle for others. The third and last interview was with Dr Headen over the phone. He is my grandmother’s foot doctor and has been for thirty-five years.

Two foundations of being a human include being able to comprehend and understand words when reading, and writing. It is very human to express thought in a physical way on paper, and send thoughts back to other people. Reminiscing the past events that led up to the current reader and writer I am today is really interesting because I am able to understand how I thought when I was younger and it also shows the development of my writing. This is especially easy for me to see my own development since my previous school has kept a record of essays I wrote several years ago.

Reading is a developmental process that must be nurtured—grades Pre-K through grade 3. In fact, according to research, by the end of the third grade, if students are still poor readers, he or she will most likely struggle to understand what is taught in later the grades—I can attest to this (Ramos & Murphey, 2016). Growing up, reading has always been a challenge for me. Today, I consider myself to be a struggling reader. At times, I find myself saying the following: “I love words and to write; however, I hate to read.” This statement may be shocking to you, the reader, but the reality is that while growing up, especially at home, I did not have a literacy-rich environment. I did not grow up around books. Thus, I, Kevin Christopher Cataldo,

Growing up with my parents, I found reading be very entertaining especially when I read about religion and newspaper about incidents taking place in certain countries. Through my parents reading routines, it started to seem like reading be beneficial in improving one’s understanding of religion such as the rules and regulations compulsory in a religion. Although I was required to read many books for school, my parents reading habits made me feel as if I should imitate them. In my childhood, I have seen my parents read books or newspapers at a certain time and sometimes discuss it with each other. My parents occasionally told me that I should leave aside school books at times and try reading the books they do. I was told there is abundant information on Islam I have not discovered yet and by reading the books my mom and dad read, I may realize so much more and my understanding can lead me to be thankful for certain purposes. These words had gotten sealed in my head which directed me to read the passages they do.