My Literacy Skills

My literacy skills began to develop in the many ways lots of people do. It first started through the typical bedtime stories by my parents. Later on it was developed even more when I got to school and teachers began to shape and mold my style of reading and writing. In my opinion the reason I developed my literacy skills was because of need. Everyone, who wants to be successful, needs to know how to read and write. With having older brothers and my oldest one being ten years older than me I became aware of this at a very early age. I would see them doing their homework, and I learned that I had to write in many different ways and read many different types of books. So to succeed it was obvious that I had to read and write. Many events had
I’ve always been the type of person looking for approval. I wanted approval from my parents and especially my teachers. Throughout elementary school we had a reading system called ‘Reading Counts’. This system allowed us to read a book and then take a quiz on it to test our knowledge and understanding of the book. When taking these ten question quizzes my classmates and I were able to earn a sticker on the class chart if we received a seven out of ten or higher. If all ten questions were answered correctly you would even be able to pick out a piece of candy. This chart was hanging in the front of the classroom where everyone good see it from any angle of the room. The second you another book would be the marshmallow, and so on. By giving us these rewards it made me want to read more and more. I loved reading as it is, so these challenges weren’t hard for me to
Palmer was my advanced composition teacher in high school. This class challenged me in having to write in different styles rather than what our normal English classes would do. We learned to write in APA format, as well as writing different narratives and stories. The one essay I struggled with in that class was the extended definition essay. I think that by having something not be super easy for me it helped me come up with different strategies to decide what to write about. I believe that this class was my most challenging english class I’ve ever taken, but I learned lots of new things from this class that I can use in my every day life as well as going through the rest of my school years. My other teacher that inspired my writing was Ms. Pohl. In her classes she likes to apply real world situations and I think that helps me in why I need to write and what I need to write about. In her english class we analyze text and write about what we read. I think that the multiple things she has taught me have influenced me greatly in my