Literacy timeline

4 years old- spoke my first word

·         Elementary school= Dad reads books to me and my sister, I read books in morning as my mom helps me get ready

·         Not a big book reader

·         Speech and Language therapy

·         Dr.Suess and picture books were the first books that I read which helped me develop my skills

·         Father loves  historical/factual books, mother doesn’t like books, older sister likes all kinds of  books

·         Slow reader and difficulty understanding made it hard to read and write

·         Television, movies were more my passion.

·         Horrible handwriting which many people couldn’t read discouraged me from writing

·         Middle school= typing class was slow when everyone was fast

·         Mysteries (Nancy drew, Agatha Christie) were the only kind of stories that I enjoyed reading

·         High school= started reading sci-fi and fantasy books, combination of romance and different people made me feel better that I wasn’t like everybody else.

·         Get involved in series and get consumed by them.

·         Would make up stories in my head based on other books I read, T.V shows I watched, and things that happened to me

·         Would sometimes write them down

·         Reading and writing was/is an escape from my life especially when life would get hard

·         Father jokes I might become a writer when I am older.

·         The more I read and write the better I felt about my literacy and myself

·         Got a Kindle in the middle of high school. It made me read more(don’t know why) 

·         Now can’t wait for the next book that I am going to read to come out