When And How I learned to Read

When I was really little around 2 or 2 1/2 years of age my mom would always read stories to my brother and I would listen, but when my brother left and my mom would try to read to me I would take the book away from her and tell her "No, I read it myself". I would then make up words, and sometimes I would get frustrated because I couldn't read the correct words and I knew I was wrong plus with my brother yelling at me to give the book back to mom because he didn't like my story, made me give the book back to my mom for her to read. Then I would either go to bed or leave because I was upset, but sometimes I would stay and listen some more. She always read Dr. Suess books, The Little Golden Books, Curious George, Clifford, and I Can Read books. The Dr. Suess books were my brother's favorite. Plus we had a Dr. Suess movie that we would watch. I started reading around the age of four, right before I began kindergarten.

Once in Kindergarten, I learned the alphabet through zoo phonics and would practice at home. I soon began reading the small ryhming books, such as "The Cat and the Rat." Those were fun to read. Then in the beginning of second grade I read my first chapter book, That Doggone Dog, with only one or two pictures, and I began to spell larger words such as "sentence". The book took me about a week to read, now I can read it in about an hour. After that book I began reading the Magic Tree House Series. Once in third grade I began the Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone which took me about a month to read, but I aced the AR test. And all those fictional books read for enertainment had prepared me for the AP World History Book which I read all of last year and other non-fictional text books. As well as novels involving a lot of history and information.