My First Momentous Readings

Green Eggs and Ham by Doctor Seuss was the beginning of a beautiful start to my life readings, and potently affected my reading skills. The simple use of rhyming in the book interested me and made me wonder how it rhymed. Being three years old, all I can remember is my mother reading this book to me everyday because it was my most favorite. When she decided that I was old enough to read, she would tell me to read it. When I read it for my first time, it took me about an hour from cover-to-cover. Then I would read it about twice a day, memorizing the rhymes and eager to read it over and over again. I found myself reading faster and faster. It would take me about ten minutes to read the book after about a week of doing so. I then began to start reading books like Horton Hears a Who, The Lorax, and The Cat and the Hat. Since those books were long, they took me a lot longer to read. I read Doctor Seuss books all through Elementary School. In my second grade year of Elementary School, I was reading at a 6th grade level. I was then put in a class of about fifteen children (including myself) that was called, "Gifted Readers."  In that class, I read the books Holes, Serendipity, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. In my middle school years, I was put in another, "Gifted Readers," class. Only in there, my classmates and I would read books in class and take tests on them. From what I can remember, in my sixth grade class, I read Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, The Outsiders, and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. After all the reading in my sixth grade year, I was was exhausted of reading. So I decided not to do it my seventh grade year. When my eighth grade year came, I realized how much I missed reading, so i decided to take the class again. In that class I read To Kill a Mockingbird, Tears of a Tiger, Romeo and Juliet, Metamorphosis, and halfway through The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. As for my high school years, I only read when I was given something to read as a class assignment because there was no, "Gifted Readers," class. So all-in-all, Reading is one of my hobbies. If I ever have a couple of free hours, I read.