I really enjoy reading. I find it very relaxing and feel it is an escape from the everyday stresses of life. When I am in school, I feel like I can not find the time to read. I am too busy reading required texts to try to fit any reading in for pleasure. After I graduated college, I had two years off before I went back to pursue my master's degree. During that time, I was able to do alot of reading. I like to read romance novels that just take you into another world. They are a great escape for me. I also like to read Nicholas Sparks novels.
When I was younger, I had many positive experiences with reading. I loved reading as a child. My mother always read to me. I do not actually remember how I learned to read. It's funny because I just always remember myself reading but not the actual learning process. My mother immersed me in all types of books. When I was in 2nd grade, she enrolled me in a Minnie Mouse book club. I would recieve a few different books at a time along with a letter from Minnie. She was clearly my favorite. Then, my mother would help me write back to her. It was kind of like a pen pal and book club combined. I really enjoyed it. A negative experience I had with reading is that I really disliked the round robin activity in school. I was always a fast reader so I did not like to listen to kids in my class that read slow. I do not think it was a positive experience for them as well because they were aware of the fact that they were slow readers. I think in the end, this probably discouraged them.
When I was younger, I had trouble with reading comprehension. On state tests, my lowest scores were always in comprehension. Even when I really took my time to read the passages, I felt like I was unable to answer the questions correctly. Reading comprehension just always gave me anxiety. Sometimes I think I tried too hard to understand the passages and would really not get anything out of it. To this day, I feel like reading comprehension troubles me.
Overall, I have always enjoyed reading. I definitely feel that my mother was my motivator as a child. She always encouraged me to read and always read along with me. I believe it is so important to instill a passion for reading in kids at a young age. I think it helps the overall development of a child.
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I love how your mother encouraged your reading in such a fun way. I would of loved going through that exprience. English was both my parents second language. My mom tried to tutor me but her slight accent got in the way. My dad has a BA but he never had patience teaching any of us. I payed a lot of attention in school and i was attached to my first grade teacher bc she inspired me to read.
And i def have the same problem as you. When it comes to reading comprehension and answering questions I'm lost. Thats why I do horribly on state testings. I pay so much attention to what I'm reading that I cannot answer the questions correctly. And it being timed doesn't help at all!
I think it's awesome that your mom was very encouraging with your reading. My parents were very encouraging as well. They were very supportive of me reading whatever I wanted and never discouraged me from reading anything I didn't like. I always had a hard time with reading comprehension, too. I think one of my struggles was that I would read faster than I could comprehend and many times I would read the questions and think to myself, "I never read that!"
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