Wednesday, September 29, 2010

My Choice Reading

I'm reading the Enormous Egg. This book is a classical story about a kid named Nate Twitchell who saw a the hen lay a very large egg. Nate works hard to have that egg hatch. After six weeks the egg hatched. The creature that was inside that egg was a triceratops. A palentologist made Nate and the small town of Freedom, New Hampshire famous. Scientists and reporters from across the nation made comotion in Nate's residence. He has many offers to sell the animal but he is determined to stay with the animal. Now he has obstacles of caring for the animal because it's growing really fast.
The author, Oliver Butterworth, has made this book comprehendable for people of our century because this story was made in the year 1956. Normally stories from this century use words that aren't common anymore. This book is awesome because it takes me three paragraphs to become from a reader to a witness.

Thursday, September 9, 2010

My First Book Experience

            The first experience that I had with a book was when I was three. I remember that it was a magazine with a red border which after I learned how to read it turn out to be a Time magazine. From what I remember  I went page by page checking out the pictures. In my mind I made up stories to go along with that picture. Every picture was a different story in my imagination. An example would be if I saw a car advertisement, I would have imagine myself  driving that car on the highway. My first book experience was strange at the time because I saw characters together with spaces. When I saw these characters my goal was to understand them which meant I wanted to learn how to read. By age six I had the ability to read and succeed in life.
            When I was five I saw that all my classmates had a common goal. This was to learn how to read and write. Some people started reading by kindergarten, but the majority learned how to read by the end of first grade. I've noticed that during this time my ability at reading was that it took me a minute to read three sentences. At the same time the maximum that I've ever wrote in first grade was three sentences with many spelling errors. Thanks to these errors I've learned to appreciate reading.
            The first book that I remember that I liked was titled "I am a Tractor". At this time I enjoyed this book because it was simple to read. It was about two sentences long in each page. This story was great to me because I enjoyed the illustrations to this story. The story didn't have any conflicts. Instead the author made the tractor seem important to our society. I choose this book because at this time I was a car fanatic and I actually was more interested at looking at the cover. From there I was excited to read.
             It's already been a decade since I have decide to read. My reading journey has gone a far way. In first grade I used to stumble with the small vocabulary. During this time I would have only read books with illustrations in every page with only a paragraph to read. My last rule was that the story couldn't take more than an hour to read. Now I'm less picky upon reading. I now read books which take five days to read. I'm already used to books without having illustrations. Fortunately I don't stumble with easy vocabulary anymore. Out of than that I have progressed more than just that. I can now read English, Spanish, Italian, math, music and a computer language. Overall I've already have taken advantage of reading. Reading isn't my foe ,but it's my partner. Right now I have a simple reading goal which is to learn how to read guitar tabs.
              I have a theory upon reading. Reading anything will make anyone intellectual and resourceful. For over a decade I've been reading but I do know that my journey has just commenced. If I didn't have the ability to read I wouldn't have been able to survive in this modernized world.