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Spending a lot of time at my grandmas, she would often read to me and I would practice reading with her when I got older. I would choose so many books and she would read them all to me and encouraged me to enjoy reading. -
Spending less time with my grandma, so little to no time spent reading outside of school from 2nd-4th grade. There were many timed reading tests during this school year, and I never read fast enough, and it resulted in most of my classmates getting reading tokens while I never received many. -
In 5th grade, my teacher read the book "Wonder" by R.J. Palacio. This opened my eyes to the emotional side of books and how they draw you in to read more and tell a wonderful story. -
Started middle school and began to read more books I was interested in and doing AR quizzes on the books I read in the school library to get points. -
Exploring fiction books in middle school as many class book readings were assigned gave me a further opportunity to feel emotion towards a story and explore its meaning further. This peaked my interest, and I began reading for fun in my free time. -
Exploring book stores and exchanging my books for new ones to read gave me an opportunity to find a variety of books to read that I had never heard of. I loved going to the small bookstore with towers of used books to look through. My interest in reading peaked in middle school. -
I found a love for dystopian novels. I would binge read one in a day or stay up all night reading it. These really pushed me to read more and allowed me to feel more comfortable doing so. I still have my favorites of the dystopian novels. -
9th grade English put me off reading with in-text annotations. She had us do 2 meaningful annotations per page for an entire 15-chapter book. Strongly disliked this assignment, and after finishing my favorite series of books over the summer before 9th grade, this experience did not make me want to put effort into reading in my free time. -
Highschool was mainly focused on reading articles and other academic sources to create argumentative pieces, prepare for debates, and apply real life to learning. This was a great part reading in school, as I was exposed to more academic language and took what I read to apply it further to prove a point or compare and contrast. This allowed me to have an appreciation for non-fiction pieces that I did not have before. -
For an EDLR class, I had to read many award winning books from the library. Getting a chance to read such well written books sparked my interest in reading for fun again. My favorite book was "The Firekeeper's Daughter" by Angeline Boulley