A Difficult Task

To be honest I really don't remember or recall how I learn to read. At age five, when my parents and teachers in kindergarten first attempted to teach me to read, they discovered I had trouble reading. I always read very slow, couldn't read up to two to three books in one day like the other students. Yet doing everything a normal child would do over a day.

As I reach the Third grade I was still on a First and second grade level of reading.  I was always behind the other kids in my classroom.  Took like three days to read a twenty page book.  My teacher always had to help me with pronouncing words.  Still till this day I have trouble with pronouncing when I'm reading. That one of the main reason I don’t like to read out loud in front of the class.

          As Years past I tin to get better with my reading skills.  Started reading up to three books a week. Then I had to start reading independent and that was better than reading out loud.  Remember when I always get out of class to go to the library and check out books.  On another hand, I didn’t even read to books I had check out. I know, I know, I should be a shame. Ha-ha! But my reading started to get a little better as I started reading books that I was actually into.  I say books like: Charlotte's Web, Matilda (Love the movie though), The Tale of Despereaux (Very good book), Because of Winn-Dixie

(Made me cry), and The Secret Garden (Can tell the book by hard).  All the listed books above are some of the books I read from third to sixth grade.  

Now one book I was totally interested was November Blues.  This book about when a girl name November Nelson loses her boyfriend, Josh, to a pledge stunt gone horribly wrong, she thinks her life can't possibly get any worse. But Josh left something behind that will change November's life forever, and now she's faced with the biggest decision she could ever imagine. How in the world will she tell her mom? And how will Josh's parents take the news? She's never needed a friend more. I enjoyed the story, and the ending was very touching. I found the writing unrealistic and uninspiring. It's easy to read and jumps right into the plot. This is a true depiction of teen pregnancy. I've seen this basic premise done better a dozen times. The writing seemed unrealistic and forced. Reading this book made me seem like I was a champ at reading books, but I wasn’t. Still was having trouble with reading at the end of the day.

Also realize that I had trouble with reading comprehension. Simply put, reading comprehension is the act of understanding what you are reading. While the definition can be simply stated the act is not simple to teach, learn or practice. Reading comprehension is an intentional, active, interactive process that occurs before, during and after a person reads a particular piece of writing. So I mostly have trouble with that.