How Reading Changed My Life

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Hello! I am excited to be back in your class this year, though I am not as excited to be back in school. This summer was one of the greatest summers of my life, and I was not ready to give it up. I spent a week with my grandparents, and we pretty much toured Rhode Island. I loved spending time with them and it was also cool to see where I was born. On November 15, 2002, I was born into the world in Newport, Rhode Island (My dad was stationed there). I soon moved to Pennsburg, Pennsylvania, where I grew up, with amazing memories. I love traveling and if I could I would travel the world, but my ultimate dream is to see the northern lights. As I grow up, I have been changing a lot, and I am almost an entirely new person, since I was last in your 6th grade ELA class. This year I hope to accomplish many goals, academically, and outside of school as well. As an 8th grader, I have started to read just the slightest bit more and begun to feel more comfortable writing, but I still love speaking just like I used to.
Though I still wouldn't choose to read in my free time, I have begun to hate it less. I have never been a big reader and because I had a different teacher for reading in 6th grade, you never really knew my stance on it. I personally don’t feel that reading is the most fun thing to do, but I will admit to …show more content…
That is one thing that has not changed that much since I was last in your class. I will always be the one to raise my hand and ask a question or stand up and present for my group. Even just talking to you for fun is something I enjoy. Speaking is something that I never struggle with, and I feel that is why I love it so much. Listening on the other hand is something that I need a little bit of work on. I get bored very easily, and then I distract myself and don’t always listen. I am trying to work on that though and don’t worry, I usually listen in

Personal Narrative: How Reading Changed My Life

read to wasn’t a common activity between my parents and I. My father would work every day and my mother simply just couldn’t read in English. When my mother had free time, away from taking care of my newborn sister, I would actually read to her in hopes she would learn new words in English. As much as I loved helping my mother out with her English, I was never fond of reading. Reading felt like a chore I had to do every day. The reason I did not enjoy reading, may have been because I was hardly read…

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Personal Narrative: How Reading Changed My Life

Reading takes you anywhere. Anywhere could be your favorite place as a kid, in your mother's arms, even your old school. Or it could be a place where your life changed forever, like in a battlefield. So many people yelling your name, “Help me!” they cried, you couldn’t do one thing. You were stuck, you can’t do anything do anything, you’re paralyzed in fear. You try to move so you can help them, yet you can’t, you’re just standing there watching them all perish. You think “How can I save the people…

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Personal Narrative: How Reading Changed My Life

The steam, that lingered from my dad’s early morning shower, caressed my soft, chubby cheeks as I plopped down on my parents bed, determined to read a book for the first time. With a glass of rich chocolate milk in my right hand and a book in my lap, I confidently struggled through the first page. This was the start to my confusing relationship with reading and writing. As I continued to struggle through books about fish, trucks and giving a moose a muffin, I developed the skills I needed to read…

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