Enjoying reading
When
I was ten I was in fourth grade and went to Green Mountain elementary. I struggled
as a student. I had many problems when reading and trying to comprehend ligature.
I was placed in many different study groups and classes prior to this time to
help me be more successful at reading and writing. But there was one problem
with this. Reading and writing weren’t enjoyable for me at all. I despised it
so I would doing anything possible not to read or write. I would skip a study
group I was supposed to go to during recess on certain days. Almost every time I
had a writing assignment due I would pretend I was sick at home just to not
attend class. And I wouldn’t do any reading or writing at home for homework. But
in fourth grade a lot of this changed.
My fourth grade
teachers name was Mrs. Langholff. She was a tall woman with short black hair. She was a
mid-aged woman I believe in her mid-30’s. She dressed in black from most of the
times I can recall seeing her. She was one of my favorite teachers of all time
she was always a kind lady and helped me during this time because I had just transferred
from sand hill elementary and I was having a hard transition.
Once a month our class would go to library to
check out books. The walls of the library were all white with large bookcases
lining them full of books. In the center of the large room is smaller book
cases running parallel to each other. Next to this off to the side is a section
full of tables to sit at and read. And off to the back of the room is a
computer lab. We had a whole month to read the book. The
library was always quite because as I remember we had a very strict librarian
who didn’t like any noise. The first couple months of this I always picked one
of the few books that I had already read or books that previous teacher read to
the class. But after a while I ran out of books to do this for so I had to come
to grips with the situation and actually pick a book to read. The only problem
though was I had no idea what to read and was very bad at deciding on what to
read.
After a long time of myself aimlessly
walking around the library mostly just trying to pass time and all of the other
kids were sitting down reading Mrs. Langholff came up to me, And said “do you
need help finding something to read? You’ve been walking around for 20 minutes
and still don’t have a book.”
I did need
help so I said “yeah, I can find anything”
“What kind of books do like to read”
“Adventure”
“Have you read harry potter?”
“No I don’t like Harry Potter”
“Have you read the series of unfortunate events?”
“No. What’s that?”
“It’s about three orphans that try to escape a man their placed in foster care with”
“Okay I’ll try that I guess”
So I went over to the check out and checked
out the book. I didn’t read the book at all with the class time I had in the
library. I didn’t even start reading the book until the whole month was almost
over. A Couple days before my time was up to read the book my mom finally forced
me to start reading the book. Once I started reading the book I didn’t stop until
I was about half way through! I was a slow reader so I had been reading for
couple hours. I was so intrigued by the story I couldn’t stop for the longest
time which was very unusual for me. Normally I hate reading and everything to
do with it. The next day I came home laid in my bed and I read the last half of
the book again without stopping. I was so interested in the story about the
orphans that were placed into a very bad foster home. I went to school the next
day and took the quiz on the book. I had gotten 100%. I enjoyed the book so
much next time the class went to the library I checked out the next book in the
series.
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