My Reading Experience

     Growing up as an English Language Learner, reading took me a while to get accustomed to. I was taught to learn in English first through school, and as I got older, my grandma taught me how to read in Spanish, and my grandma had dropped out of school by the second grade in Mexico. As I grew more fond of reading, my mom quickly realized how much I was enjoying, and she started helping me build my own collection of books. I fell in love with Rick Riordan's, The Lightning Thief series and realized how a book can help me escape from the now and travel to a different place. Now my collection has been overgrown, and half of my parent's storage unit is filled with boxes of books that I have collected for my personal and classroom library. There is a book for everyone, even for the most stubborn students. I'll never forget one student in particular where we spent about an hour trying to find a book that he was truly interested in. The other teachers on my team could not believe that I "wasted" my time helping him find something to read, but now every time I see my former student in the hallway or pass by his classroom, his nose is always buried in a book. Reading should be considered a form of art and not a task, especially as students get older. My goal is to help my students define their reading, whether the text is in English, Spanish, upside down, sideways, etc., as long as they enjoy it. 

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