Overcoming Obstacles In My Reading Career

Reading books became very challenging for me because it was just the thought having to read out loud that made me not want to read because I felt like I was going to mess up the words and not sound articulate. The first time I read a book in eighth grade I remember having the feeling of wanting to read more books. Reading is more than just opening the book and looking at the words it’s all about taking time to understand how and why the author chose to write the book. When I started to read books, I felt as though the world around me was nonexistent. Reading took the expectations of just reading to getting a better understanding of the world around me. Although I wasn’t much of a reader at first my eighth-grade teacher Ms. Copeland taught
me that reading is very essential to life because it will make your vocabulary enhance. Reading books was not what appealed to me in school I preferred to not read books but once I took the time out to sit down and read a book it was a new experience that I wanted to experience again. I remember reading this book called Truth or Dare by Jacqueline Green I was so amazed by how the author grabbed my attention while reading this although the ending was a cliff hanger I was still captured by the art of being taken away from reality even if it’s just for a few hours. Reading is the root of the imagination it is the stepping stone of how someone views the world. With this being stated I could understand the meaning of being able to comprehend words better and have a different view of the world.
By overcoming the thought of messing up the words and not being articulate was just one of many obstacles in my reading career because reading was not always my strongest, another obstacle I faced was reading the words correctly.
When I would read the words some of the letters would be mixed up and I would get confused as to what I was reading. It was a form of dyslexia I would get many letters mixed up such as b and d with having the words mixed up I would have to re-read the entire paragraph to understand what I was reading. I learned how to slow down my reading by having a piece of paper over the paragraph or book I was reading to help my reading become enhanced. Having done this, I would become a better reader. By doing this I developed the necessary skill to become a better reader and to learn to read aloud without messing up specific words in a reading. Reading books became easier to do when I took my time and analyzed the reading. My mom has played a huge role when it came to English because she influenced me to continue reading although I did not like to read but she made me read everything around me because when I was younger I always had problems with reading because certain words I could not comprehend and by having people in school to help me I was able to become a better student in English and a better reader because of that. All in all reading has become a major part of my academic career because it took me levels that I was not able to reach until I started
to read books and this helped me to become a better student and also a more intelligent student with my academic career.