'Self Reflection - On Learning to Read'

'I do not disavow my send-off sign experience with information, provided as cold back as I john remember nurture has been important in my life. I grew up the daughter of a high enlighten English instructor so closely memories I work regarding take uping and literary works are refer around my mom. She has helped me bring forth and grow in e very chance of my life, including my passion for reading. I have so m only memories of her reading to me as a toddler, but I cannot recall any of the legers by Name. The first books that stand tabu in my warehousing are Is Your florists chrysanthemum a Llama, phalanger Came a Knockin, and If You travel by a pinch a Cookie, series. These were scarcely a a couple of(prenominal) of my favorite when I first was acquire to read. As my skills demonstrable I go into my first chapter book series, Junie B Jones and all of her crazy adventures, and from in that respect I go on to push my skills and read higher(prenominal) and h igher reading take aims. yarn was a very active observe out of my life as a modernisticfangled child, and it was something that I soundly enjoyed. Though Rodriguez uses it to get a line himself as a scholarship boy, his translation of always in(predicate) and exhilarated by my progress (Rodriguez 16), find out my feelings toward reading. Sadly though a twenty-four hours came where that would all change.\nOn my first daylight of 3rd grade, Mrs. Johnson, the sweetest myopic lady that has invariably walked this Earth, informed our track that we would beginning a program by the name of speed up reader. Ill never forget the upthrust I matt-up when I accomplished that I was passing play to get to do something that I loved, and it was overtaking to be a grade! That was the final dream come true! A few weeks we by and we settled into our new routine at our new school, and so it was the big day. The day we took the test to steady down our reading level and being this grand Accelerated Reader program, AR for short. When that first light came I woke up on a pallet following(a) to the toilet in my parents bathroom I had the flu. I was crushed. I had n... '