Why Literacy Is Important To Me
Literacy is everywhere: from reading signs, to menus, to checking the time. It is important in our everyday life, especially to take a break from the world. Literacy is important to be creative, and to help use our ability to imagine what is happening in our stories while we are writing. The experience of going with a character on their journey can be life changing in some perspectives. The experience of growing up with these characters from literature was the best thing; whether it was being on edge during the climax, or feeling sad when I’m near the end. Literacy has always been a hobby of mine. I enjoy being able to come up with my own scenarios and stories where anything and everything could happen. Throughout my school experience, literacy
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has been my favorite activity because it gave me a break from school work, to let my mind wander with my imagination.
This all started in first grade, or from what I remember it started in first grade. My teacher was a tall lady named Mrs. Crow, she was always teaching us how to read better since day one. Back then I was already reading children books by authors such as Dr. Suess, or Hans Augusto Rey, books that included pictures to show what’s going on. Then my teacher assigned us our first chapter book, Charlotte's Web, with very few pictures to show what was going on. Our first assignment for this book was to read the first couple chapters. This was a huge step for the class, especially since we had only read picture books beforehand. Reading the first couple words, I already had the image of what’s going on inside my head, I was mesmerized by the story playing in my head that I didn’t realize how far along I got into the book. It was my own movie in my head; I didn’t even have to think about the words I read, it just came naturally. By the time we finished the book in class, Mrs. Crow showed us the movie. I was confused, the characters looks nothing at all then what I pictured them, nor did their voices match the ones I had for them in their head. My first thought seeing the movie after imagining the movie I had made in my head through reading the book was, “How could someone make the movie different than the book? After all, the book is practically the script.”
My imagination only got bigger after reading Charlotte’s Web. My family was supportive of my reading, and got me my own library card. I would spend hours upon hours, just reading one book, while being surrounding by thousands more. Making up the movie in my head as I followed along the hero saving the world, making sure to include every detail to make it perfect. I followed along as Harry Potter destroyed all the horcruxes, Percy Jackson as he saved Olympus, and Katniss Everdeen when she won the Hunger Games. I felt as if I was part of the story itself, supporting the characters throughout their adventures. My movies in my head would always get ruined by my teachers, “Stop reading under your desk!” they would say to me, of course I normally would stop for awhile, then continue. I couldn’t just pause a movie and forget about it, I had to read it to the end as soon as possible. All my report cards from third to sixth grade all read in the comments, “An amazing reader, but she would always read under her desk during the lessons.” Despite my parent’s scolding, I was proud of those comments.
After reading every possible adventure book out there, I got tired of the same old plot, hero from a low profile, becomes the chosen one, gets in trouble, saves the world, the end.
I wanted to write something different, something new. Mrs. Jones, my sixth grade teacher, focused on writing the most, so I came to her for my dilemma. She taught me writing techniques that I still use today. I had a journal full of sample writings that I would show her and have her tell me things I could do to improve. I wanted to create a story that didn’t follow the cliche, and she recommended that I participate in National Novel Writing Month. A whole month dedicated to students around the world writing their own stories. I got started right away, despite it not being November yet. I created my characters, careful not to reveal everything about them right away, and I would make the movie in my head as I wrote along, picturing everything that was happening to make it just perfect. As November rolled along, I finished my own little story and published to the National Novel Writing website, I was in sixth grade at the time, so I was technically in the ‘beginners’ area. My story was rated thirty seventh out of the two hundred, I felt proud, and I participate every year. I was basically writing down my daydreams and turning them into
stories.
Literacy has helped me become imaginative and creative in many different ways. Although being imaginative and creative doesn’t exactly help me academically, it helps me survive going through problems in my life. I feel as though every character in every book I’ve read is apart of me, I learned through the characters’ mistakes. Literacy has become the way to escape from our ordinary world to see the extraordinary side of it, something that can help me think outside the box to solve my everyday problems. Literacy is the best way to relax and take a break from all that’s going on to explore another world that is unlike any that has never been seen before. Throughout my school experience, literacy has been my favorite activity because it gave me a break from school work, to let my mind wander with my imagination.
has been my favorite activity because it gave me a break from school work, to let my mind wander with my imagination.
This all started in first grade, or from what I remember it started in first grade. My teacher was a tall lady named Mrs. Crow, she was always teaching us how to read better since day one. Back then I was already reading children books by authors such as Dr. Suess, or Hans Augusto Rey, books that included pictures to show what’s going on. Then my teacher assigned us our first chapter book, Charlotte's Web, with very few pictures to show what was going on. Our first assignment for this book was to read the first couple chapters. This was a huge step for the class, especially since we had only read picture books beforehand. Reading the first couple words, I already had the image of what’s going on inside my head, I was mesmerized by the story playing in my head that I didn’t realize how far along I got into the book. It was my own movie in my head; I didn’t even have to think about the words I read, it just came naturally. By the time we finished the book in class, Mrs. Crow showed us the movie. I was confused, the characters looks nothing at all then what I pictured them, nor did their voices match the ones I had for them in their head. My first thought seeing the movie after imagining the movie I had made in my head through reading the book was, “How could someone make the movie different than the book? After all, the book is practically the script.”
My imagination only got bigger after reading Charlotte’s Web. My family was supportive of my reading, and got me my own library card. I would spend hours upon hours, just reading one book, while being surrounding by thousands more. Making up the movie in my head as I followed along the hero saving the world, making sure to include every detail to make it perfect. I followed along as Harry Potter destroyed all the horcruxes, Percy Jackson as he saved Olympus, and Katniss Everdeen when she won the Hunger Games. I felt as if I was part of the story itself, supporting the characters throughout their adventures. My movies in my head would always get ruined by my teachers, “Stop reading under your desk!” they would say to me, of course I normally would stop for awhile, then continue. I couldn’t just pause a movie and forget about it, I had to read it to the end as soon as possible. All my report cards from third to sixth grade all read in the comments, “An amazing reader, but she would always read under her desk during the lessons.” Despite my parent’s scolding, I was proud of those comments.
After reading every possible adventure book out there, I got tired of the same old plot, hero from a low profile, becomes the chosen one, gets in trouble, saves the world, the end.
I wanted to write something different, something new. Mrs. Jones, my sixth grade teacher, focused on writing the most, so I came to her for my dilemma. She taught me writing techniques that I still use today. I had a journal full of sample writings that I would show her and have her tell me things I could do to improve. I wanted to create a story that didn’t follow the cliche, and she recommended that I participate in National Novel Writing Month. A whole month dedicated to students around the world writing their own stories. I got started right away, despite it not being November yet. I created my characters, careful not to reveal everything about them right away, and I would make the movie in my head as I wrote along, picturing everything that was happening to make it just perfect. As November rolled along, I finished my own little story and published to the National Novel Writing website, I was in sixth grade at the time, so I was technically in the ‘beginners’ area. My story was rated thirty seventh out of the two hundred, I felt proud, and I participate every year. I was basically writing down my daydreams and turning them into
stories.
Literacy has helped me become imaginative and creative in many different ways. Although being imaginative and creative doesn’t exactly help me academically, it helps me survive going through problems in my life. I feel as though every character in every book I’ve read is apart of me, I learned through the characters’ mistakes. Literacy has become the way to escape from our ordinary world to see the extraordinary side of it, something that can help me think outside the box to solve my everyday problems. Literacy is the best way to relax and take a break from all that’s going on to explore another world that is unlike any that has never been seen before. Throughout my school experience, literacy has been my favorite activity because it gave me a break from school work, to let my mind wander with my imagination.