young age and have never lost the love of reading throughout school. I was taught how to spell correctly and how to write neater as a young child. My parents knew that I would need to know how to read fluently to succeed in school‚ but they never worried about writing. My mother would read books to me every night‚ and as I grew older I started to read them to her. I loved to read as soon as I learned how. When I entered school‚ I loved to read all the books in my classroom‚ but I never like having to
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just for a little while. I live in an apartment in Brooklyn and share a bedroom with my little sister which is a huge stress factor in my life. I didn’t have many options when I was a young teen. Where was a young girl like me supposed to go when I had had enough? Public transportation never appealed to me. I wasn’t old enough to drive yet‚ so the only thing I could do was go outside and hang out on the block with my neighborhood friends. But I yearned to be off by myself once in a while and taking
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writing and reading‚ English is my most feared subject. It is the one and only vulnerable spot in my otherwise invincible academic armor. I hate writing and I despise reading. Other than magazines‚ I cannot recall reading anything since "The Crucible" which was a teacher assigned book in my sophomore high school English class. Not that I read a lot before that‚ I don’t remember reading any books in my middle school years neither. Now‚ with this writing assignment since a long time‚ my brain feels
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students my age are busy with sports‚ homework‚ and their jobs. Not only do we not have time to be entertained by a novel‚ some choose not to because they think books aren’t amusing to read. This is due to horrific experiences with this subject. In addition‚ not many students think well of reading. As a below average reading student‚ without extra help as a new reader at 4 years old‚ caused me to have horrible reading habits and experiences‚ permanent hardships and complete avoidance of reading which
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My personal reading history is a simple one. I’ve always read books that appeal to me‚ typically young adult books with a storyline based on teenagers and their struggles‚ romances‚ or friendships. A low point in my reading history would be that I have found myself sometimes having to reread chapters because I felt I didn’t fully understand. A good example would be The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. I would reread almost every chapter of this book because it was a difficult read for
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10. Explore the use and importance of symbol in one poem “Symbolism” is an important literature device; it is used to represent real things or even abstract ideas. Symbols are normally metaphorical; in poems‚ poets use certain terms to indicate something beyond‚ with another layer of meaning. In Robert Herrick’s “To the Virgins‚ to Make Much of Time”‚ a carpe diem‚ he uses several items from nature as symbols to show how women should cherish the time while they are still young and encourage them
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Barbara Gomez Mrs. Melissa Qualls EPP 150 10/23/2013 The Art of Reading by Lin Yutang At the beginning of this essay‚ Yutang starts speaking about the differences between the mind of a person who reads and of someone who does not read. Lin show his point of view very cleary telling us how small can be the thoughts of someone who does not read can be when "His life falls into a set routine‚" (90) a non reader can be easily impressed by the world outside because‚ Lin says‚ "he only sees what happen
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My reading has improved by taking this class this term. I learned how to read fiction by practice reading and analyzing the text. I have also learned strategies for my studies by analyzing textbooks and how to research. I learned reading skills for general reading too. That’s what I have learned by taking this class. When reading fiction‚ the reader need to analyze the text to understand what you are reading. This first thing the reader needs to know is the setting‚ that is the time and place
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As future teachers it is very important to make sure that our students understand print. There are students who are fully able to pronounce print but unfortunately aren’t able to comprehend what they are reading. To read I believe means to understand the meaning of words‚ so therefore it involves much more than pronouncing print. In Beyond Traditional Phonics‚ (BTP) Margaret Moustafa stated‚ “pronouncing print is not necessarily comprehending print” pg. 6. Unfortunately‚ there are many students
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Reading is a necessity for some people and a hobby for others‚ but either way it is something that we start to take for granted as adults‚ forgetting that there was once a time when we couldn’t read. The sad fact is that for many adults‚ this is still the case. They lose out on the joys and the benefits of being able to read‚ and quite often it stems from lack of commitment and time from the parents during childhood. In the Gulf countries alone there are approximetly 7.5 million people who are illiterate
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