Activity 3 for Tuesday, January 18th

Answer the following questions:

• How did you learn to read?  

Well my father paid for me to attend a school that would accommodate my needs to learn when I moved in with him for the summer I was 12-years-old and could not read. At that school they provided visual aids such as flash card, hands on projects with call and response such as repeat after me, and quietly reading to ourselves in class.

• Who helped you learn to read?

My mother tried but her approach was just not working. I can truly say that school that my father paid for me to attend in the summer changed my life and thought me how to read.

• What were some favorite books, subjects, and stories and why?

Book about the history of blacks in American and that was because that was most of the books my father had in his home at the time.

• What were some memorable experiences with reading (good or bad)?

The first time I was able to read a letter to my father without asking “Daddy what is this word.” What a great feeling and the smile on his face just lit up my world.

• How did you feel about reading in elementary, middle, and high school? Why?

I hated it because my teacher’s know that I was struggling with reading and would call on me and make fun of me in front of my classmates this is why to this day I am very uncomfortable reading aloud.

• What kinds of reading do you do now?

I love real faith base book or life stories that or non-fictional

• How do you approach reading a textbook?

I have to read a textbook more than once to get all its fullness and understanding.

• How has your attitude toward reading changed throughout the years?

I am still working on building my reading skill. Because when it comes to reading aloud I still have some issues I think people will laugh at me. I know this is something that I have to overcome but I am working on it.