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I became literate through many different means. There are three aspects of literacy: spoken language, reading, and written language. My journey to becoming literate started from birth. My grandmother was a school teacher so I had an "advantage" over the average baby. Adults around me would talk to me frequently. My father was a stickler about people talking to babies in a normal voice instead of with "baby talk. " By having this kind of stimulation I began listening to the sounds of the words being spoken to me.

As all babies do I tried imitating the sounds I heard. I began to "coo" and babble back to my parents and other adults. People would repeat the same word over and over to me. I soon began to catch on and said my first word. My first word was "da da. " This was a big step in my literacy development as my first spoken word. My father also didn't like people to use nicknames such as "pumpkin" to refer to me so I quickly learned my name.

Skipping ahead a few years as my vocabulary grew I would try and say big words and they just didn't come out quite right. I would try to say asparagus and it would come out "bas carious. " I also tried to say spaghetti and it came out "based. " I began attending The Daycare of McLean County at age 2. They further helped in my quest to become literate. I began to learn the alphabet at daycare. My mother too worked with me at home to learn the alphabet.

One day my mother and I were at the park. I was climbing the ladder up to the slide and she was climbing the ladder behind me. I began to recite the alphabet and went through the entire alphabet! My mother was astounded because she didn't even know that I knew the entire alphabet. When my mother would be balancing the checkbook or writing something I would sit there and "write" with her by making lines on my piece of paper to form the "letters" I was learning. Some people would call this "mimic writing. " The daycare told my mother that the school I would be attending kindergarten at used a certain type of handwriting so she went and got the right writing tablets and we started practicing making the letters the right way.

I also learned my colors at this time. The daycare used flash cards with shapes of different colors. My mother would play the game "what color is this?" with me. We would figure out the color of shirt, signs, cars and many other objects.

When we would eat M&M's I would have to tell her what color an M&M was before she would give it to me. That may not sound relevant to becoming literate but a few years down the road it did help. Along with all of the alphabet and color learning the daycare and my family read to me a bunch! The daycare teacher would have us all sit in a circle so we could see the pictures and would read stories to us. At home I would bring my mother book after book after book and we would sit there and read about ten to fifteen books per night. We read Little Golden books, Clifford, The Pokey Little Puppy series and Disney books.

Some of my favorite books were The Pokey Little Puppy series. I would recite the books that were most often read to me as if I were reading them myself. The books that I didn't know the story to I would look at the pictures and "read" my own story to fit the pictures. I thought I was doing just what the grown ups were! I would get out the books that had a single picture and a word telling what that object was on each page and "read" them because I knew what each picture was, such as a chair or a book. One distinct book I remember being read to me by my grandmother is Little Sandy Sleighfoot.

Little Sandy Sleighfoot was a story about a little boy who lived at the North Pole and he had extremely large feet. He felt very very sad about having such large feet. In the end his feet saved Santa Clauses' reindeer. The stable caught on fire and no one could get to the stable faster than Little Sandy Sleighfoot could. He skied down the hill on his feet and saved the reindeer. He became the town hero and overcame his embarrassment of his extremely large feet.

This book taught me no matter what, you can over come any obstacle or "flaw" that you encounter. My mother took me to the Bloomington Public Library from this time until I finished fifth grade to participate in the summer reading programs. For the pre-reader an adult would read five books per week to them. A child as young as three years old can participate. For the pre-reader stage there are page requirements of at least five to ten pages.

For each grade a child goes up the page requirements go up. When we would complete the requirements for each week we would take my folder back in and get the prize for that week. Once I started kindergarten I began learning with the letter people. We would watch videos with them featured in it and do worksheets to enforce each letter and the sound it made. My favorite letter person was Miss A, Ahcooo. This was of course because my first name begins with A.

The letter people on the videos would put themselves together to show what sounds they made when combined. The words we began to form were one, two, and three letters long at this point. Some of the were: A, I, An, As, All, And, & The. When I started school I was introduced to a new program, Book-It. In the Book-It program I had to read and meet requirements very similar to those in the library program. The difference was when I got done with the requirements in Book-It I got a free personal pan pizza from Pizza Hut.

I continue participating in Book-It until the end of sixth grade. Once I went on to first grade I started using phonics to read our first readers. The teachers encouraged use to sound out words. I was so excited the very first time I ever read an entire sentence all by myself!

Along with sounding out the words when we read we were supposed to sound out the words and spell them how they sounded when we were writing. Once I learned how to read I began reading books about The Bernstein Bears, Curious George, and many many others. As time went on I learned how to read and write better. Just like anything you do you have to practice it. So I practiced and learned to spell. I never quite learned to spell very well, never the less, I learned to spell and practiced writing.

I started having spelling tests from first grade on through eighth grade. Each year the reading and writing assignments got harder and harder. I went from writing my first letter to my first term paper and many many things in-between. Each time I would write or read something bigger than the one before I would get excited. Some of the things I remember reading and writing were: a letter, my name, a phrase, a sentence, a paragraph, an essay, a book (reading only), and a term paper. I struggled in junior high school.

My grades dropped. One of my teachers told me I would never do more than work at McDonalds. In one of my English classes, seventh grade I think, my teacher had everyone write a poem. She then sent these poems into a poetry contest. I was one of the ones chosen to get published!

This was so exciting to me that I began sending more poems to contests on my own. I have now had three poems published. The names of the poems are For Jeremy, Drunk Driving, and Used. My high school years were better as far as grades, but I don't remember writing very much. I know I did a few essays, book reports, essay tests, and summary writing. I don't remember much else as far as writing in high school.

When I decided to go to Heartland I took the placement test and was placed in English 095. I felt we did more reading than writing in that class. Nevertheless, I completed it and now I am traveling down the road of English 101. I am going to Heartland to get Graphic Arts degree. In this field I will do a great deal of reading and writing. I will have to read what the customer wants.

Then I will have to be able to write to create the product that they want. The only problem I foresee is not being a good speller I feel I might not spell things exactly right all the time. I feel I went through five stages in my journey to becoming literate. The first stage would be pre / reading /writing / speaking and would include Cooing, picture reading, and making lines to simulate letters. Second stage is preliminary reading / writing /speaking and it includes reciting books, tracing letters, and repeating words. The third stage is primary reading / writing /speaking in which I would sound read picture books with one picture on a page, trace letters on worksheets, and say names of things like colors.

The fourth stage was intermediate where I would sound out words both in reading and writing, and use a more extensive vocabulary. The fifth and final stage is advanced which is everything I've learned from the intermediate stage to the present. I feel a person never really leaves the advanced stage of literacy until they die. You are always learning more and advancing as a speaker, reader, and a writer. The two things I would like to work on as a writer are my spelling and grammar. Bibliography:


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