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    The document summarizes the author's early experiences with reading and how it shaped their literacy development. It describes how the author enjoyed reading paper books in elementary school with their teacher Ms. Poss, who helped accelerate their reading level. The author's parents also played a key role by exposing them to reading at a young age through programs like Hooked on Phonics. A favorite book was The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein, which their mother read to them often. The author's siblings additionally supported their literacy by answering questions and being generally supportive every step of the way.

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    The document summarizes the author's early experiences with reading and how it shaped their literacy development. It describes how the author enjoyed reading paper books in elementary school with their teacher Ms. Poss, who helped accelerate their reading level. The author's parents also played a key role by exposing them to reading at a young age through programs like Hooked on Phonics. A favorite book was The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein, which their mother read to them often. The author's siblings additionally supported their literacy by answering questions and being generally supportive every step of the way.

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    The document summarizes the author's early experiences with reading and how it shaped their literacy development. It describes how the author enjoyed reading paper books in elementary school with their teacher Ms. Poss, who helped accelerate their reading level. The author's parents also played a key role by exposing them to reading at a young age through programs like Hooked on Phonics. A favorite book was The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein, which their mother read to them often. The author's siblings additionally supported their literacy by answering questions and being generally supportive every step of the way.

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    The document summarizes the author's early experiences with reading and how it shaped their literacy development. It describes how the author enjoyed reading paper books in elementary school with their teacher Ms. Poss, who helped accelerate their reading level. The author's parents also played a key role by exposing them to reading at a young age through programs like Hooked on Phonics. A favorite book was The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein, which their mother read to them often. The author's siblings additionally supported their literacy by answering questions and being generally supportive every step of the way.

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    Carledward Russell

    Writing Prompt 1

    UWRT 1104

    7/11/17
    Early in my life, I thought reading was riveting, because it gave you a way to step

    in someone elses world. My fondest memory of reading had to come from my elementary

    school, Forsyth Academy, because there I learned to read, write, and spell. I recall staying in

    class with my teacher Ms. Poss and she had these paper books that I loved. I used to read about 3

    a day and I really enjoyed them because you could write and color in them. A early memory I

    remember is one time she called upon me to read this word and I knew in my mind I couldn't

    pronounce it, so I got mad and the class laughed at me. From that day on I knew I was going to

    give anything I try my best shot, because failure shapes you better than anything else. Those

    books really accelerated my reading level, because most children began reading them in 1st

    grade. By the time I got to first grade, I flew through the books all thanks to Ms. Poss. She

    always told me You will thank me later, and she was correct cause I owe a lot to her. Thanks

    to her, I found reading very easy and I would usually try to read bigger books because I always

    loved a challenge, and I still do.

    I remember my parents being heavily involved in my literacy narrative, because

    they were always pushing me to take an extra step in my education on any level. Both my mom

    and my father believed that exposing me to books at an early age would really help me later on

    in life, and it do. I remember my mom bought the program Hooked on Phonics and that really

    helped me because it gave me the basics of the English language. It also helped that my mom

    bought the entire set, so I was always learning new things. When I was younger, my favorite

    book was The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein, and my mother would read it to me every chance

    she got until I could read it on my own. That book was very important to me because it taught

    me compassion and gave me a giving attitude that I still carry to this day. In The Giving Tree, the
    tree gave the boy everything he had until he had nothing left, and as a kid that influenced me

    greatly. I really enjoyed everything by Mr. Shel because he had an uncanny ability to make

    difficult reading easy.

    My siblings were also monumental in my literacy narrative, because they were always a

    helping hand whenever I needed it. The age gap between my sisters (20 and 14 years) really

    helped me because they could answer every question I asked. They are both extremely smart and

    have been since the beginning so I knew everything they told me was correct. My brothers, on

    the other hand, arent nearly as smart but they were there for me every step of the way. My

    brothers have always been around and I look up to them, but I also want to outdo them in

    everything I do.

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