Reading Autobiography Analysis

Reading has always played an important role in the household in which I grew up. My parents played a vital role in my older brother and I first learning to read and write. While many days consisted of reading Dr. Seuss books, or memorizing short speeches for church during Easter and Christmas service this is where I built a love for reading. On the weekends my brother and I would lay around the living room and read comics as well as complete activities in the kids section of the newspaper placed in the weekly Saturday paper. This is the time where my parents read articles that centered on what was going on in our county and explained it to my brother and me. As a family we would discuss the article that was read and everyone gave one’s opinion through verbal or written
expression or in my case a drawing. By the time that I reached pre-kindergarten I was reading sight words in books, reading and recognizing traffic signs and enjoyed every minute of it.
As the youngest child, I always envied my brother who naturally had a love for reading. My mother often tells the story of how my brother was reading before he was potty trained. He would read for hours and discuss with my mom what he read. I believe this is the moment when I realized I wanted to read on my own and be just like my brother. Reading and engaging in conversation about the books that was read with my mother became a goal that I wanted to achieve. I was taught to read through phonics, repetition, memorization and being read to daily. This way of teaching was taught not only at home but at school as well. Writing came through constant repetition and tracing. I recall repeatedly tracing the dotted letters in the alphabet as well as my full name. As my vocabulary begun to increase so did the number of beginning level books that I read. I recall reading books to include Goldilocks and The Three Bears, Curious George, Mother Goose, Cinderella and the Dr. Seuss collection just to name a few. These books became my favorite in my early years and still remain in my book collection. I found myself teaching story elements with the fairy tale books that I read as a youth. Despite teaching older children, my students seem to enjoy going back to their childhood when the fairy tale books are reintroduced to them for a refresher course in a particular reading or grammar skill.
From my earliest years, reading was an integral part of my life.
My parents and my older brother all loved to read. My parents not only taught me the alphabet at a young age, they saw to it that I was supplied with an array of books. They regularly purchased picture books for me as well as checked them out of the public library and read to me daily. As a result, I learned to read at a very early age. At some point in my earlier years, I discovered writing. I wrote songs, poems and my thoughts in a journal that was purchased for me. When I came to words that I did not know how to spell, I would ask my brother how to spell it. Thus, my spelling and grammar increased rapidly. The love of reading and writing enhanced my life in countless ways. Through books, I learned numerous things and was able to escape from the hardship that life sometimes hands to us. I am unable list all the books I have read throughout my childhood simply because there are too many. Learning to read and write at an early age has helped me to overcome obstacles that I could have faced if I was not taught at an early age. This suggest that it is vital that children learn how to read and write as early as
possible.