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Hi! My name is Julia Sharpe
My experience with reading was a very positive one! I still love to read and believe it is because I had such a good experience. When I think of reading I think of the ability to pronounce and comprehend words and phrases as they are put together in sentences. -
Sesame Street
I can remember my experience with letters and words beginning early on with Sesame Street. I would watch this show daily and loved the two purple monsters who did spelling. I believe this show was more of a social experience for me because I watched the show with my sibling and parents. -
Junie B. Jones
These are the first books I can remember showing a big interest in. I loved getting to read about a little girl similar to myself. I think this started my love for reading and the feeling you get when you are engaged in a good book. This book was very popular among girls my age therefore I do believe it was a social experience because I liked the thought of reading the books my friends were reading too. -
Scholastic Book Fair
The Book Fair was something I looked forward to every single year of elementary school. I would beg my parents for enough money to buy myself a new book. I think that this experience really hyped up reading for me and made it feel really "cool" in a sense. This was very social in my opinion. The idea of getting to pick out the coolest new books with your friends. Looking back, it may have been more about the experience than the actual books. -
The Magic Tree House
I went through a phase where I wanted to do everything that my older brother was doing. One of these things was reading The Magic Tree House series. This started my love of fiction books. The idea of going to another place in time was fascinating to me and I felt as if I was going along on the journey. I think this experience was both cognitive and social. Socially, I loved getting to do what my brother was doing but cognitively I really enjoyed "going" to another place through the book. -
Story Journal
In the Third Grade, I began struggling with my punctuation. My teacher had me bring home a journal each weekend and write a new story of my choosing. This ultimately furthered my love for story telling and reading as I usually pulled inspiration from my favorite fairy tales. I believe this has more of a cognitive aspect because when I would write these stories I was alone and they became my time to put all my thoughts down. -
Twilight
Twilight was a very big trend in my friend group. We all were obsessed to say the least. I think these were one of my first large series of books that I had read. After these books, I began to really enjoy books that were made into movies and comparing the two pieces. These books were definitely more of a social concept. All of my friends read these books and I wanted to be apart of the trend. -
To Kill a Mockingbird
This book definitely changed my outlook on reading genres. I had initially had a huge interest in fiction only but after this reading in school I became very interested in more realistic historical books. In my opinion this was both social and cognitive. First, it is social because we were required to read it at school as a class. Second, cognitive because of the journey the book took me on and the way it transported me back to a point in history. -
Where the Crawdads Sing
My most recent book I have read is Where the Crawdads Sing. I began reading this book during quarantine because I longed for that feeling of "escaping" the reality of COVID. I was fully engulfed in this book and read it in about three days. This book was more cognitive related in my opinion because I was more interested in the way the book made me feel and escaping my current reality.
