Growing up, I had a hard time with reading. I could read page after page, and never be able to tell you what I was reading. Sure, some of that could be attributed to a lack of interest, but a lot of that was due to my troubles with comprehension. I avoided reading at all costs. I would do just about anything instead of reading at home, I never read for homework (unless it was a math problem, which even some of those word problems were too tricky for me to understand the words), I would ask my friends for summaries of a book or a few chapters that we were supposed to have read in English class, and I would pay as close attention in the classroom as I could manage in order to get the information I had missed from avoiding the text itself. As I got into college, I realized I had a reading disability in comprehension. I finally felt like I wasn’t stupid, that there was a reason behind why reading was so hard. However, even during undergrad, I still read very little compared to what was assigned. I tried to read things that I thought would be the most important, but even reading one article was exhausting and time consuming. I took my first reading course during my Junior year, and I fell in love. Not with reading books on my own, but with the process of reading. It drew me in. It caught my attention. It was something that I had never understood, and my curiosity shot through the roof. My desire to learn about reading opened up the doors for me to read more texts. I started to read more articles, attempt to read parts of my textbooks, and I came to realize how important the skill of reading is in our lives.
This blog is for a course in my Master’s Program for Reading Education. Here I will capture the stories we have read, my thoughts and ideas, and how I think they would translate to the classroom. I hope these posts are helpful to someone out there that’s looking for a great story to dive headfirst into.
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