I am me x2
I wonder why there is so much fighting
I hear peace in the ded silence
I see the world as a whole
I want to be a leader
I am me x2
I pretend I'm on the top of the world
I feel free
I touch a better future
I worry about death
I cry when people die
I am me x2
I understand why there's no peace
I say end world hunger
I dream the world gets better
I try not to fight
I hope to one day live in a better world
I am me x2
Monday, October 29, 2012
How I Learned To Read
Have you ever wondered how you learned to read? Well I have, and I still don't completely know how I learned. I do know that in pre-school, teachers tried teaching me how to read, but I just wasn't into it. I didn't really get involved in reading until Kindergarten, and even then, I didn't really enjoy it. I also used to read for sheer enjoyment, starting after the first grade, even though it was for Accelerated Reader. To be honest, I took after my mom on the reading subject.
In pre-school and Kindergarten, I absolutely hated the concept of reading. So my mom tells me. teachers tried all of the time to teach me to read, but reading didn't click with me until first grade. Mrs. Wilbanks, my first grade teacher, got me hooked on reading by allowing different kids each day to sit and read in a bath tub during reading time. this made me try my hardest everyday to read the best I could. I wanted to be the one in the tub. It also taught me to love reading.
After first grade, I continued reading, not just because I had to, but because reading interested me more, and I enjoyed it. Due to me reading more and more each year, my reading improved tremendously. Not only did my reading improve and continuously get better, but it got so much better that I was reading at an Advanced level. In third grade I was reading at a sixth grade reading level. I also finished with the most A.R. points in my class, because I read all the time.
Not only did I read at school, I read at home and on weekends. I did it because I wanted to, not because i didn't have anything better to do, because I enjoyed it. I can still remember going home after school and finishing my homework as fast as i could just so I could get back to reading the book I had got so interested in during school. I remember laying down on the couch and turning the television off and just reading for hours, waiting on my mom to tell me that dinner was ready, just to go back to reading after dinner. My parents and teachers always told me that reading was good for me, I guess that they were right.
This is how I came to love reading, by getting hooked on reading in first grade and always wanting to be a better reader than everybody else. it started with trying to be the one in the bathtub, the one getting noticed. It then turned into me enjoying every moment of reading I got, reading and enjoying books as if there was a television ion my head. That is how I learned to read to the best of my ability.
In pre-school and Kindergarten, I absolutely hated the concept of reading. So my mom tells me. teachers tried all of the time to teach me to read, but reading didn't click with me until first grade. Mrs. Wilbanks, my first grade teacher, got me hooked on reading by allowing different kids each day to sit and read in a bath tub during reading time. this made me try my hardest everyday to read the best I could. I wanted to be the one in the tub. It also taught me to love reading.
After first grade, I continued reading, not just because I had to, but because reading interested me more, and I enjoyed it. Due to me reading more and more each year, my reading improved tremendously. Not only did my reading improve and continuously get better, but it got so much better that I was reading at an Advanced level. In third grade I was reading at a sixth grade reading level. I also finished with the most A.R. points in my class, because I read all the time.
Not only did I read at school, I read at home and on weekends. I did it because I wanted to, not because i didn't have anything better to do, because I enjoyed it. I can still remember going home after school and finishing my homework as fast as i could just so I could get back to reading the book I had got so interested in during school. I remember laying down on the couch and turning the television off and just reading for hours, waiting on my mom to tell me that dinner was ready, just to go back to reading after dinner. My parents and teachers always told me that reading was good for me, I guess that they were right.
This is how I came to love reading, by getting hooked on reading in first grade and always wanting to be a better reader than everybody else. it started with trying to be the one in the bathtub, the one getting noticed. It then turned into me enjoying every moment of reading I got, reading and enjoying books as if there was a television ion my head. That is how I learned to read to the best of my ability.
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