Reading History Essay

Nichole Silverstein September 17, 2010

When it comes to reading as a kid I was thinking it was pretty neat but as I got older I really didn’t become too fond of it. I never really was too interested in reading anything. I was one of those kids that would watch the movie version of things. I would even cheat and look up quick notes and things like that. I only was interested in anything that would scare me or keep me hanging on the edge.

In Elementary school we never really had to read much in class in kindergarden. Actually I don’t remember too much from kindergarden. But from what I do remember they had a computer that we would all gather around to watch and we would do a read along. As a kid, though, you don’t really look at the words as much as you would at the pictures. As it progressed to first grade reading actually started to seem a little different. I only read what was recommended to read I wasn’t too interested in reading that much. We would just have mandatory reading that we would have to do and that’s the only time I took the time to read things. When it came to second grade things didn’t really change that much I still read the same way I was pretty lazy and I was really slow at reading. I would end up being the last one done while everyone was already ready to do other things. As to third grade I was starting to get interested only because I was told to imagine things while I read. It was sort of fun. But soon that faded so as I got to 4th grade I didn’t really feel like reading too much anymore. So I would skim everything that was told for me to read. That didn’t help much because I would always end up forgetting and I would get questions wrong because I only skimmed through it. I soon gave up on trying to skim through it because that never helped me. When it came to 5th grade I just got lazy and didn’t feel like reading and I would look to notes or summaries of stories which didn’t do much help because when they gave us tests about what we read I could never fully answer it all. This didn’t help me much either with reading throughout elementary school. So I was never really a good reader.

When it came to 6th grade I was probably the best at reading. I loved reading and I would take my time and I ended up getting pretty fast at reading things I used to exchange books with other kids just to see their interest in books. I loved mystery books with anything really crazy and twisted that would just put your mind in a whirl. I loved puzzles and figuring out how things happened. We only read books in school as a silent read, taking a couple hours out of school time to read. I ended up taking the books with me to other periods and read them. But I always had a problem reading at home. It seemed like too much and I just can’t concentrate on the book as much unless the house was totally empty and my door was closed and I felt totally comfortable. It didn’t take too long till 7th grade came along and reading was just a mandatory thing now. I had fun reading the books we had to read. But I soon became lazy near the end of the year. When a book doesn’t sound interesting I don’t give any time to read it. Although I did like the projects we had to do when we read it. We had to make a popup book one time for this book called “Dragons Kin”. It was a neat experiment to try out. In 8th grade my progress with reading kind of faded. I didn’t really feel like reading I thought other things where much more important. So I would go to my friends and have them explain things to me. I wouldn’t really even try to anything that had to do with reading. I put it at the back of my mind and at last minute I would look at everything that had to do with the questions we had to answer for a quiz. As 9th grade came along I pretty much did the same thing. I didn’t really didn’t have a thing for reading. I would skim through everything and just said that I read things but I missed everything that I was reading.

When 10th grade came around I was really lazy with everything. I don’t even think I read anything, except for this book about unicorns. I really did not like reading at the time. I would create any short cut to make sure I didn’t have to read anything too long. I wasn’t a fast reader like I used to be. I lost every interest I had in reading. Now In 11th grade I don’t have to read too much at the moment but when I have to read something I will. I’m still not a big fan of reading and I don’t think I will be for awhile but there are some books out there that will probably interest me. For now I’m not going to read anything until I have to for school.

So I will find some books that will catch my eye and I will read sooner or later but to sum it all up I’m just too lazy to read all the time. I never even really liked those serious of books like “Twilight” and “Harry Potter”. Although, the one that I did like was “The Lightning Thief”. I wish I read like how I did in 6th grade. I used to write my own stories back then but they are kept away in notebooks. I never finished any of them. I still want to try and get into reading because I love imagining things and how a lot of things can happen in books seems so interesting. I just procrastinate until I forget.