Personal Literacy Narrative

Growing up, literacy has always been a very important and dominant part of my life. Almost every night my mom or dad would read me a bedtime story. I can still remember lying in bed and having my dad read me “Good Night Moon”. This was one of my favorite stories. Around holidays my parents would also read me stories about each holiday. This is how I became interested in reading. I can also remember reading the books with one or two words on each page in kindergarten. Kindergarten is where I began to learn how to read. When we first started to learn how to read with the simple books my parents saw that I was a very good reader. I never had a problem with reading and always enjoyed it. By the time I was in fourth grade I was a very active reader and went to the school library whenever I could. After grade school my love of reading died down. I did not read as often and found myself being slow at reading. Last year I recently rediscovered my love of reading. I started reading books for fun again and got back into my old habit. I believe that I lost my love of reading in high school because we had so much required reading to do. I did not enjoy the reading that we had to do so it drew me away from reading. I never had time to pick up a book that I liked because I was always reading m y required books for school. Towards senior year we got to choose what books we wanted to read for our projects. This is how I started to like reading again. I am glad that I rediscovered my love for reading and I am now an active reader again.