Audrey:
I don’t remember exactly how old I was when I started reading. I remember my mom would always read to my sister and I when we were little. We would always check out books from our town library and beg her to read to us every chance we could. I actually learned how to read at an event called “Story Hour” at our public library. This organization taught me how to read at a very young age and by 2nd grade I was already reading some-what thick books. Learning to read at such a young age has given me a huge imagination and the ability to understand a lot faster. As a child I loved to read. I read almost every day. Some of my favorite books as a child, that I can remember reading, included the wayside story books and Goose bump books. I still enjoy spending time reading long novels over the summer when I have time and when I'm not busy with school work.
I don’t remember exactly how old I was when I started reading. I remember my mom would always read to my sister and I when we were little. We would always check out books from our town library and beg her to read to us every chance we could. I actually learned how to read at an event called “Story Hour” at our public library. This organization taught me how to read at a very young age and by 2nd grade I was already reading some-what thick books. Learning to read at such a young age has given me a huge imagination and the ability to understand a lot faster. As a child I loved to read. I read almost every day. Some of my favorite books as a child, that I can remember reading, included the wayside story books and Goose bump books. I still enjoy spending time reading long novels over the summer when I have time and when I'm not busy with school work.
Shawna:
I also do not remember how old I was whenever I started reading. I do remember my mom and sisters always reading to me before bed and when I learned how to read thats all I wanted to do! I remember having reading logs in 2nd grade and we also had something called books for bucks. So every time you read a book you would take a test on a computer and if you made a certain percentage you got money. This definitley made reading interesting. Some of my favorite books were BoxCar Kids and Jenna B. Jones. To this day I still love to read, not necessarily school books, but more non-fiction type books.
Michael:
Before I was able to read I used to look at comics and make up stories which seemed to coincide with the pictures. I used to tell those stories to my friends and show them the comics at the same time. This early imagination probably helped stimulate my ability to read. My parents used to read to me often. After I learned how to read I started to read to my parents. There were also school competitions that would help stimulate my reading abilities. Some of my favorite earliest series to read were: The Chronicles of Narnia, Harry Potter, Hank the Cowdog, and Young Wizards. I beieve having a favorite series is something that can help readers learn how to read becasue they like the story and want to read t.
