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Before schooling my grandma would read picture books like "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" weekly until we could start to read and then we would read to her.
To listen to the story follow this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4HI7q38VmQ -
On a vacation road trip to Florida my brother listened to Harry Potter before I was old enough to comprehend what was happening but listening to the book gave me the main ideas of the story.
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Reading is not a big hobby in our family but every night of my child hood my family would come together to read a nightly devotion together.
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Our local library put together a summer reading program that rewarded us with pizza hut pizza coupons for reading books from different genres. This always made my siblings and me read alot in the summer.
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Playing football taught me about homographs at a very young age from the jargon of the game having different meetings in a context outside of football.
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My fifth grade self was excited to be able to play music. I learned to play the trombone, through this process I learned how to read sheet music and learned the language of music.
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AR points swept the middle school and teachers demanded you to have a certain number of AR points each month leading to forced reading which like many others took the drive to read for fun away.
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Learning a second language created a literacy challenge but mostly made me realize the struggle to learn a language if it is not surrounding you.
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In my high school engineering class we learned basic coding which takes numbers and letters and sequenced them into different patterns to make a small robot perform different tasks.
To see an example of the coding I created follow the link to view this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQHRYHK-4IQ
