Literacy Narrative

The first person to introduce me to reading was my mom.  I remember from a young age my brothers and I would all come together in my brother’s room before we went to bed and my mom would read us short picture book stories or bible stories out of the Little Children’s Bible.  My parents were a big influence on my reading and made sure I grew up an educated kid.  In the car during long trips we would listen to book on tapes.  When I learned how to read, my parents would make sure I read for at least a half an hour in the morning before I watched TV or played videogames.  During my reading time I slept or read books like Where’s Waldo or the Guinness Book of World Record.  I have never really liked reading in my free time and for the most part the only books I freely read were the Harry Potter books, sports illustrated magazines and the Hardy Boys series.  By the time I was in middle school I was already forced to read many books for school and I mostly gave up free reading during the school year.  During the summer I would participate in the Library’s summer reading program and I would read fairly often and for the most part I liked reading mystery or action books.  In both Middle School and High School I did not read books much outside of school.  I was interested in mystery books and I liked too read about my favorite athletes such as LeBron James, Peyton Manning and Michael Jordan.  Reading has been a small factor in my life because of school, but outside of school it has been fairly small.  Hopefully I will be able to learn to like reading while taking this class.