mabel

i feel like reading gives your brain food. as you read you gain knowledge without knowing it and you strengthen your vocabulary. you become better at forming your thoughts. i love reading because of this. i want to take in as much knowledge as i can and use strong vocabulary when i talk. 

there’s a ton more but these are the ones i vividly recall.

Me: sorry?

my mother

since i read a lot in my childhood and continue to read a lot now,i  ended up becoming a sort of fast reader. i would read past books quickly since i would become absorbed into the book and just read and read. this is a quality i am glad i acquired thanks to reading so much.

i did not know multiliteracy was a thing when i was younger and i did not even realize i was doing it at such a young age. in order to learn more spanish, i remember watching muzzy at school and having to read the words on the screen and seeing the moving pictures. my eyes and brain were working together to help better my reading and understanding of spanish.

the earliest books i recall reading, well being read to, was the very hungry caterpillar and chicka chicka boom boom. it was during my preschool days. i remember sitting in the reading circle and my teacher reading these books to us and showing us the words as she pointed to them as she read and showing us the pictures.

growing up i almost always had a book with me. i was an active reader at such a young age.