My Literacy Journey
People develop from situations and events that alter a person's life for it to either improve or to decline. Reading can only make you a more intelligent person on what is happening around you, and around the world. Each individual has their own literacy journey that is unique to themselves. No one can have the same literacy journey as others, literacy journeys are like fingerprints, no matter how close an individual will be with one another, they will have different fingerprints. I believe, that the introduction to reading at an early age in a person's literacy journey, alters and makes a person who they are later in life. Reading makes people stronger readers, thinkers, and writers and without being introduced to reading at an early age in
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I first found out about this series when it first came out in 2007 and I loved the book. Coincidently I found about this book at the Scholastic Book Fair that came to my elementary school every year and it was one of my favourite times of the year. I loved seeing all the different books, I loved the sports books, fact books, and specifically the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books. I took the book and started reading it for the fifteen minutes my class was at the book fair for and I adored it. When I went home that day, I convinced my mom to drive me back to my school because the book fair was open until two hours after school to buy the book. She agreed and my mom and I drove down and bought the book. I finished the book in two days and I reread the book a countless amount of times. To this day I occasionally read the books because I enjoyed them so much. The main reason why I enjoyed these books so much is that at the time I was around the same age of the main character, Greg Heffley and I believed I could relate to him. When I was a child, I loved video games, so did Greg, Greg had a best friend, he did everything with, I did also. I have learned a major lesson from reading the series. It is to treat people the way you want to be treated because at some times, Greg would disrespect his best friend and I would think that was wrong at an early age. Now, I try my best to show respect to everyone I meet. This series is and will always be a major part of my literacy journey and made me the person I prevailed to be
I first found out about this series when it first came out in 2007 and I loved the book. Coincidently I found about this book at the Scholastic Book Fair that came to my elementary school every year and it was one of my favourite times of the year. I loved seeing all the different books, I loved the sports books, fact books, and specifically the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books. I took the book and started reading it for the fifteen minutes my class was at the book fair for and I adored it. When I went home that day, I convinced my mom to drive me back to my school because the book fair was open until two hours after school to buy the book. She agreed and my mom and I drove down and bought the book. I finished the book in two days and I reread the book a countless amount of times. To this day I occasionally read the books because I enjoyed them so much. The main reason why I enjoyed these books so much is that at the time I was around the same age of the main character, Greg Heffley and I believed I could relate to him. When I was a child, I loved video games, so did Greg, Greg had a best friend, he did everything with, I did also. I have learned a major lesson from reading the series. It is to treat people the way you want to be treated because at some times, Greg would disrespect his best friend and I would think that was wrong at an early age. Now, I try my best to show respect to everyone I meet. This series is and will always be a major part of my literacy journey and made me the person I prevailed to be