Xinrong li Professor Jan English 1101 Sep 16, 2012

Literacy Memoir

As our class going, our literacy memoir is also grow at a steady peace in my life. Just as its name implies, literacy has been used to mean the ability to read and write. I believe that each person have their own experience about literacy memoir, some of them are excited, others are neuter. I have called to mind the earliest or most vivid memory I have of learning to read or write. Personally, I could speak is much earlier than other children and my parents thought I would be a talent person for reading and writing, so they signed up for reading and writing for young children class for me when I get into primary school. I started to learn and write words use words cards when I was six years old. Everything prosperous before school. Unfortunate, when I start to write, I do not always enjoy writing. but I am really enjoyed composing stories, but if I was given any other type of writing assignment I would not be emotionally engaged, and therefore not intrinsically motivated. The earliest experience I have of learning to write was when I was in primary school. I call to mind this because that was the time I realized my
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Comment [1]: Did you use word cards to help you learn English or Mandarin? Or both?

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Comment [2]: What kind of stories?

grandfather is a very outgoing writer even though he is not a professional writer. My writing through my fifth grade in primary is kind of messy which means I always write something like a running water and I had trouble to come up with complex ideas and put them together to become a fluent writing. I usually lives with my grandparents because my parents are very busy when I was in primary school. I remembered everyday when I finished my homework which was my grandfather left for me, he would help me to check it. When I got up in the morning, I always saw my writing with a few comments but he never helped me to change it due to he said; it must be noted that learning must be done by a person himself. So, my grandfather is one of the person who have a great influence on my writing. Moreover, another person who helped me for my writing is my teacher. When I was in sixth grade in primary school, our teacher asked us to read a short article everyday and answered questions that she made it . After a half semester went, I felt I was not repel as much as before and realized writing is not very hard than I thought because I have devoted myself inside the writing. Furthermore, when I was in middle school and high school, teachers would like our classmates to change and make comments for our reading and then they would read it. On the one hand, teachers were able to read writers' article, on the other hand, they were able to read readers' comments to identify how the readers' think about articles. An advantage of writers is that they would have two kinds of comments from both teachers and classmates. From my point of view, I would like this method to enhance my writing through read others writing. Another part for literacy is reading. From my past experiences, I have grown to prefer reading over writing. When I am reading, I can visualize the text in any way that I see fit. As far as I am concerned, reading is better than writing because reading can put you in the reading situation if it is interesting. I started to read long reading since I graduated from primary school.

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Comment [3]: What did your grandfather write? Maybe add some examples of what he wrote?

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Comment [4]: What was your teachers name? What did he/she teach?

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Comment [5]: What kind of questions did she ask? What kind of articles did you read?

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Comment [6]: Did this help you? Or did you only like comments from your teachers?

One of my classmate's speaking reminds me of a book which have a deep influence on my mind. I believe it is a universally acknowledged book called "Harry Potter" that a series of seven fantasy novels written by a famous british author J.L.Rowling. It is popular in China from the first book published at that period of time and even most of my friends have one. Once I saw it in my sister's home, I felt I would not interested in this book because my sister told me the book is about magic, so it could not catch my eyes. I saw the book everywhere, like classroom, library, bus, etc. I saw the movie of "Harry potter" with my sisters and I though it was not boring as I thought before. She strongly suggested me to read it because book have a bunch of detials that movie did not cover. The movie was just a concentration of book. Finally, I started to read it and I was addicted to it at that time even sometimes I had to read several page before I went to bed for I would image if I did not read. Unexpected, I became a loyal reader of "Harry Potter". I could say that books motivate me to read and also let me fall. I have followed the next six book in the next few years and I have kept those books until now because I think those books helped me. To be honest, I am really admire people who are very knowledgeable by reading a lots of books but I do not have patient to read. "Harry Potter" is an exception. As the proverb goes:" Read ten thousand books, traveling thousands of miles. The proverb states the importance of reading books. As I stated in the reading response about an experience by my friend and I. A girl who transfer from another city to my high school and then she became my deskmate. When I saw her first time, I was aware she is a glamorous person and her smile is always feel confident. We have told a lot during rest time and I realized she is a very knowledgeable people and read a lots of books due to her speech was profound. Through our conversation, I have made a decision that I must read books whatever the book is because reading is the best way to
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Comment [7]: I like how you talk about your experience with the series of Harry Potter. Maybe in this paragraph you can talk more about what kinds of other books you read too. Maybe required reading in school that you did not like to read?

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Comment [8]: I agree, I do not have the patience to read either. Why do you think you do not like to read? Is it because past experiences?

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Comment [9]: Great way to be motivated to read, did you see her reading and it made you want to read more?

improve the comprehensive quality. Nothing is important than to acquire knowledge. That was the process how I started the real reading, not read in a specific purpose, like homework. What is more, when I was in primary school, I always did my reading and writing homework as soon as possible even though sometimes I really do not want to do it, but I would finish it at first when I arrived at home. In contrast, along with the gradually grow up, I do not put them at first. I always do it until the last minutes to hand in in the evening. From hearing some people's suggestion, I will back to basics. Nowadays, I feel I start a new literacy progress because I have to read and write in english instead of Chinese after I came to the United States. I believe I will have improvement everyday with the book I read and the essay I write. I am going to working for my best to become a better reader and writer.

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Comment [10]: This is very true! The only way to obtain knowledge is to read!

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Comment [11]: But did you enjoy reading for your pleasure?

Dont forget to double space your paper! I think you have a great start to your paper! Maybe you could include some more about how you learned English and what helped you to learn English.