Personal Narrative: My Childhood Memories Of Reading

My earliest memories of reading and writing would have to be before I started Pre-K. Then in first grade I can remember going through the alphabet sounding out each letter. Also in first grade I can remember we had what was called a reading section we did every Friday. I know I have read before that, but that is the earliest memory because it has stuck with me. Before I started kindergarden my mother bought me a chalk board. Every nigt before we would go to bed, she would make me write my full name. I started when I was about three to four years old. My mom would make dots and it would spell out my name when I traced it. After doing that over again for a couple months I could write my name. Eventually when I got my name down pat, she would do sentences. So before I even started kindergarden I was writing my name and a few other words. Mrs. Anne Blackmon was my first grade teacher, and I can remember her going from student to student making us sound out each letter. She would even play sounding games with us. She had this video she would put on, and whoever raise their hand first to tell her what letter the sound made got a piece of candy. As the year progressed things got harder because it was not just one letters sounds but sometimes two or three. The sounds varied from "ch, sh, and, but, etc." When we mastered …show more content…
I hated going to the library with our librarian because she was so mean and hateful. Her name was Mrs. Audree, and she was the librarian when I started in K-4 and she is still there now. After a couple years I started to enjoy going because we got out of class. We would have to read books throughout the week and take what was called an "AR Test" when we finished. It became a race to me to read the most books, and pass all of the test. If we had a certain average at the end of every semester we would have a pizza party. I got to go a few times, but after awhile reading became something I was not interested