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    Pearce | ‘Thomasina Pearce Professor Raymond UWRT 1103 10 July 2015 Literacy Narrative: My Rood to Literary V/ As I reminisce* on my tiest enceyaters As I think back to the very first time I began learning how to read and write, | realize that the earliest memories area blur. have never truly thought about how LTeamed to read and write A unt this assignment. tis odd that most people donot think about certain things like this that have such an important impact on their lives, ‘The first books I most vividly remember using to practice my reading skills were incentive books that my mom would buy me. Incentive books are books that many parents buy for their children to get them to enjoy reading. For example, some of the books that | stated off reading had packets of star stickers attached to them. Everytime I read the book, or achieved a certain goal while reading the book, I was able to adda star to the back cover. Once all ofthe star spots were filled, my mom would award me with a special treat Eventually, I came to love reading so much that incentives were no longer needed. I started off reading books such as: The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Berenstain Bears series, Dr. Seuss books, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?, and many other classics. I had an unusually small period in my childhood in which ead actual “children's books.” took to reading higher level books earlier Start cmothur paragraph ‘than others, sugh as the Harry Potter series, which were my favorite [rowing up with 8 older than with Hearing how For end be siblings: had Hower, Faoerbabhe wpe cig Trev had te Chane te endeave -read.bed time steries, na’acmwe my parents and siblings were too busy, but simply because in ed Nm Stores. T+ wasnt VECwse -.. bout for my meturity Life of Bees, the main character, Lily, tres to conjure up a memory of her mother tucking her iol an eating ebooks, Fen, bcs Lil's moter psd ava, at enon ent atten ett woul eben ec wen th Hesy sarah mcf and IB Ste would have eyed the expensing read bedtime ove, whore woul not ave oye As gol, never edn ire Dooks sts tse sunment Uk ci ih stv Malin Xs os tes inmy hss solve ee. esi of hi oat a ani he knowledge of basic history. | moved from New York to North Carolina atthe age of 5, so 1 have spent most of my life inthe suburbs. Because we never received the local newspaper at our apartment in New ‘York, when we began eeiving it every dy tou new hme in North Carfind. not make «adifference. My parents were already accustomed to not reading the newspaper and using other resources for their daily news that they did not even bother reading the newspaper that was delivered to our house every moming. Although the newspaper had zero effect on my literacy araive, my predominantly white neighborhood ddr neighbors We Keneschooled "i apesed %e “Things thet fetgade and wen we became good friends, I realized that they TL washt davght in public schecl. 40 Gestion wheber dug leting bene schoo lad Stn eS ne omar whethr ornorhomeachookt-weu eth beter Ad be betkr tion for ms wold get Fee nmelatntndeeotinalynahonet SY a scores inthe 80th percentile, in comparison withthe public schoo average of Soth percentile” i af treme (Powell). My neighbors wen tous people and stesso show taLX6. 74X Powel)“o* ‘of people who choose homeschooling, choose it for igious reasons , My famityFenot-very <_. Pearce 3 My mom explained te me that if wovld Mere berehiial tome if TE seligiomamtmy mom explained to me that I would make more influential connections and Ot 4er

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