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Literacy Narrative

Kat Camp
Trayal
ENGL 1010 055
18 September 2014

Love or Hate Relationship

My start with literacy begin a little differently than a lot of the stories we read about for our discussions, but it gave me material to compare my experiences too. For example, just like Malcolm X I did not start off with an interest in reading, but developed one after I got older. As for writing I have never liked nor have I been interested in writing, the reason for this would probably be because of how I was taught to write in school. An instance would be having to write everything exactly how I was taught from that particular teacher, which sometimes varied from year to year when I moved on from grade ...

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with literacy. As stated above, I begin developing an interest in reading as I got older, in about middle school. Before that I did not like when my parents read to me before bedtime when I was a little kid. Also in elementary school for homework we always had to read for at least thirty minutes each day, and I remember trying to lie about doing the reading and my parents forcing me to sit down and read. As I got older my teachers allowed the students to start choosing what we wanted to read instead of forcing us to read a particular book. There were also various computer programs and games that pertained to reading that I got to play in class. For example the game Leap Frog, which I got to play at least once a week in class. This is when I finally started to become more interested in reading. I started to go to the school library by myself instead of just with the class, and I remember some weekends I would ask my parents to take me to the public library or the bookstore. ...

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forced to write while in school on various topics that do not mean particularly anything to me. I remember in elementary school on our report cards we had several sections like math, science, social studies, reading, and writing; on every single report card except one I would have all A’s, but one B which was in writing. With writing I can relate to Victor Villanueva because just like him I felt that I tried hard, but was not getting the grades that I wanted, which contributed to my dislike of writing.

I was offered many literacy sponsors in my life. The biggest literacy sponsors in my life would have to be my parents. The reason that they are the biggest, would have to be because of ...

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