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Earliest Memory
When I was younger I would get stories read to me often and even though I couldn't read yet I loved listening to them. -
Learning to Read
In kindergarten I started to learn how to read and I learned sight words and how to sound out different words. -
Library
In elementary school I remember my favorite special being library and my favorite time of the day being independent reading. This really helped my love of reading grow. -
Summer Reading
In the summer we were encouraged to read and while we were not given summer reading lists, my local library had reading challenges, if we filled out a reading log and we could show the library and they would let us pick out a prize from a prize box. I loved reading and would try to fill out the reading log as fast as I could. -
Book Fair
One of my favorite times of the school year was when the scholastic book fair rolled around. I didn't have a lot of money and most times wouldn't get a book but I loved looking at all the knickknacks and books that they would have. -
Book Series
I had gotten more and more into reading and had found a couple of book series that I had absolutely loved reading, whenever it was time to check books out of the library I would go to try to look for the ones I hadn't read yet. -
Mandatory Reading
At this time I had stopped reading for fun, most of the reading I did was mandatory school reading for tests, research or it was required. -
Middle School
When I entered middle school I had stopped reading for fun, I would do it on occasion but to as often as before, often just reading because I had to but in the summer of 7th grade I had found a book that got my into reading reading again and I would read as much as I could. -
High School
By the time I started high school I stopped reading as much as I did in middle school. I wanted to focus more on school and meeting new people, most of the reading I did was school based reading. -
Falling in love with reading
In junior year of high school I got into reading again and I met a friend with the same taste in books as me. With this I was able to rekindle my love for reading and stick with it.