My Literacy
I became literate through many different means. There are three aspects of literacy: spoken language, reading, and written language. My journey to becoming literate started from birth. My grandmother was a school teacher so I had an "advantage" over the average baby.Adults around me would talk to me frequently. My father was a stickler about people talking to babies in a normal voice instead of with "baby talk." By having this kind of stimulation I began listening to the sounds of the words being spoken to me. As all babies do I tried imitating the sounds I heard. I began to "coo" and babble back to my parents and other adults. People would repeat the same word over and over to me. I soon began to catch on and said my first word. My first word was "da da." This was a big step in my literacy development as my first spoken word. My father also didn't like people to use nicknames such as "pumpkin" to refer to me so I quickly learned my name.Skipping ahead a few years as my vocabulary grew I would try and say big words and they just didn't come out quite right. I would try to say asparagus and it would come out "bascarious." I also tried to say spaghetti and it came out "bascedy."
Once I learned how to read I began reading books about The Berinstein Bears, Curious George, and many many others. My high school years were better as far as grades, but I don't remember writing very much. Some of the things I remember reading and writing were: a letter, my name, a phrase, a sentence, a paragraph, an essay, a book (reading only), and a term paper. Nevertheless, I completed it and now I am traveling down the road of English 101. The two things I would like to work on as a writer are my spelling and grammar. Just like anything you do you have to practice it. In the end his feet saved Santa Clauses' reindeer. I also learned my colors at this time. That may not sound relevant to becoming literate but a few years down the road it did help. So I practiced and learned to spell. The difference was when I got done with the requirements in Book-It I got a free personal pan pizza from Pizza Hut. This book taught me no matter what, you can over come any obstacle or "flaw" that you encounter. Each year the reading and writing assignments got harder and harder. We would watch videos with them featured in it and do worksheets to enforce each letter and the sound it made. He felt very very sad about having such large feet.
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