A Life of Workbooks and Worksheets.

In the beginning I never liked reading because my mother used to make me do worksheets. I also learned from Sesame Street. I began to love to read when I read books like Froggy's day to the lake and Junie B. Jones.

My earliest memories of learning how to read comes from my mother and how she used to teach me how to read using work sheets and work books to teach me, Elmo and Big bird off Sesame Street taught me too. I remember me spending countless hours working out of work books and work sheets she would give me. I remember hating working out of work books. Every day she gave me a worksheet I would throw a fit simply because I detested doing work sheets and work books. I appreciate my mother for forcing me to do worksheets because my detest for reading turned into pure love for reading as the worksheets turned into short books. In between doing worksheets I would watch Sesame Street. Sesame Street taught me a lot. Sesame Street taught me how some words looked; I also learned my numbers off Sesame Street because of Count Countula (vampire that counts).

As I got better in reading and the worksheets got easier I began to want to read books and not just read those kiddy short stories I read out of the workbooks. I started to ask my mother to take me to Wool folk Library (local library in Marion, Arkansas) to check out books. The first book I remembered reading from that library was Froggys first day of school.This book introduced me to many things such as picture books and series books. There are many other Froggy books out there I encourage anybody with small children to read these books to them.

After experiencing short stories, I couldn’t stop reading short stories but I wanted to read more. I had a never ending hunger for newer and more challenging books what it seemed liked. I told my mother I wanted to read something more challenging and she told me that she would go find something tougher for me to read. She came home with the book Great Expectations. The language of this was rustic and classic. My mother had to tell me a lot of the words but I made it through the book. Great Expectations turned out to the best book I ever read and it still is till this day. I have read it a thousand times it seems. I have loved other books by Charles Dickens as well. I also remember reading my first book by myself which was Junie B. Jones is a beauty shop guy. I have a page memorized out of this book it is "My name is Junie B. Jones. The ‘B’ stands for Beatrice. Except I don’t like Beatrice. I just like B and that’s all." I love this part. All through my life I've done work books and worksheets, watched Seasme Street and Read Junie B. Jones books . I have seen every Sesame Street episode and read every Junie B Jones book.

During my life I've grown from hating books to loving them. Books are a way to get away from this world. Now I've come from reading Junie B. Jones to reading War and Peace.