I can just remember comIng home wIth a backpack full of my favorIte books ready to be read; they were serIes for example: JunIe b. Jones, Box Car ChIldren, Judy Moody, and MagIc Tree House. My favoIrtes were CaptaIn Underpants because they had the flIp pages to make the pIctures come to lIfe!
Oh, do I mIss the days of lovIng to read! After startIng the sIxth grade I became very pIcky of what I read and most of the tIme never fInIshed a book. I felt as If I lost all Interest In readIng, but not completly cause I can remember goIng to the lIbrary everyday and gettIng a dIfferent Cam Jensen or Goose Bumps book. For some reason I have always been really Intersested In books lIke mystery, scary, horror, drugs and abuse, topIcs lIke that.
Now a days my mom can barely get me to pIck up a book, but she doesn't understand why I do not lIke to read because the rest of my famIly absolutely loves It and even my best frIend FaIth. Come to thInk of It, It mIght be because I would play school wIth my best frIend Morgan eIther over the weekend or somethIng lIke that and she would make me read book after book and she would make me do work and answer questIons about the book. I would like to want to read, but I just can't seem to get Into any books that I absolutely lIke or love that I want to keep readIng.
I hear all the tIme that readIng makes you smarter, that It can help wIth your comprehentIon of lIfe, and gIve you a dIfferent take on lIfe. Also that It helps wIth your vocabulary and teaches you lessons. I understand that It Is an Important task that I should take part In, but I really only have tIme to read two books and they are The Holy BIble and The Book of Mormon. I belIeve that those are the only books I need to help my vocabulary, and to teach me lessons, and guIde me through lIfe and help me reach salvatIon, and to help my comprehentIon of thIngs.
One day I was goIng through pIctures of me and my famIly and I found a pIcture of me In a dIaper, sIttIng on a yellow stool, holdIng a book to my face. I asked my oldest sIster about It and all she could do was laugh, she told me I would make up my own storIes to go along wIth the pIctures In the book because I dIdn't know how to read yet, but that I was learnIng and learned really fast and I was above almost all the kIds In my age group I came encounter wIth.
My mom notIfIed me that I was an amzIng reader when I was younger and when I was In kIndergarten I was wrItIng essays that were no where near my age group, so everyday she would be gettIng a call from my school tellIng her how great of a student I was and that my vocabulary was fantastIc and I could just come up wIth amazIng storIes off the top of my head and wrIte them down and they would make total sense and rewardIng me wIth a treats from the treasure box In the offIce.
HearIng the past of me readIng and wrItIng excItes me cause wrItIng has follwed me a long way, but because of not readIng all that much anymore my vocabulary and wrItIng In general has suffered drastIcally. I hope to dIg up my past and brIng It to the brIght future of me, shyanne, readIng a lot more and wrItIng wIth perfect scores lIke I use to.
