Personal Essay About My Literacy Journey

Adkins Chip
Professor Powell
English 1010
17 September 2012

Personal Essay Over my eighteen years I have had several experiences that have developed the literacy skills that I now have. Most of the experiences were bad though, considering I’m not a big fan of writing. However there were a few good experiences that I did have in my literacy journey.
There are three experiences in particular that come to mind when I think about my literacy journey. The first was the letter super heros in kindergarten, the second was the paper I had to write my junior year in high school, and last was scoring a five on my TCAP assessment test.
These three things were three of the major moments in my literacy journey. The start of my literacy journey was probably in
Luckily my teacher gave us the option tom revise it and make a better grade on it. So I did revise and ended up passing it.
After that paper the rest of the papers I had in high school seemed easier and I got better grades on all of my papers. My last experience I had was scoring a five on my TCAP writing assessment test. This experience was the best for me in my literacy journey. After working hard throughout my schooling career, and never really liking writing and to make a very high grade meant a lot to me. It showed me that hard work does pay off and all that work I did wasn’t for nothing. It was a very rewarding experience for me. Over my years I’ve had several experiences in the development of literacy. The majority of my experiences were bad but there were some good ones in my journey. When I really think about the experiences I had I think about three main ones that show the development of my skills. The first was learning my ABCs with the letter super heros, the second was my paper I had to write my junior year, and the last one was scoring a five on my writing TCAP