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Birthday
Today was the day I was born! From this day on I began to experience life. These experiences from here on out help me make sense of the literature I read. Be sure to click on the blue titles for links to other pages :) -
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Grace Trebels: Literacy Timeline
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I remember when my mom would read me stories. One I specifically remember was "Goodnight Moon" by Margaret Wise Brown. She would read it to my sisters and I during the day and even at night right before bed. I always thought the book was kind of odd because of the pictures and the plot line. I remember the pictures illustrated the author's words pretty well. While my mom would read the book to me, I mainly looked at the pictures while listening to what she said.
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In kindergarten Mrs. Roberts would read me and the rest of the morning class a book every day. We would all sit on the alphabatized rug all scrunched up by the teacher in hopes of seeing the illustrations better. One day she read us "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom" and showed us the video that went along with it. There would be days where our class would go to the LMC and a librarian would read us a book. Doing this introduced me to the library at school.
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In elementary school I was part of the reading intervention program. This was when I was pulled out of class a few days a week for 30 minutes with a few other peers. The literacy teacher, Mrs. Beck, helped us with phonics, vocabulary, and reading comprehension. We had a work booklet and we read various books. We practiced various components like visualization, connections, questions, predict, and infer. I remember liking it except for the few times I was bored and it felt tedious.
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Reading Checks
Also in elementary school, I remember being pulled from the rest of class to read a story that was printed. I don't know if other kids had to do this fluency/words per minute test. I remember there being a timer and the tester would highlight the words you mess up saying and where you stopped reading when the timer rung. I understood that it was timed and when the timer was off she stopped you. The pressure was on while these checks were proctored! -
On Saturdays for part of middle school my parents sent me to Huntington for extra help in reading and math. Each time I would sign in, grab my binder from the shelf, and have a seat in a private desk station. I can't really remember if a tutor would tell me what problems to work on or if there was a check list of sorts. Either way I did my work. If I needed help I would raise my hand. When I was finished I would check my work or a tutor would check it.
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Twilight
The summer going into my freshman year of highschool, I started to read "Twilight" after my summer school typing class from the moment I came home to the time I went to sleep. Before this I did not go out of my way to to find and read books that interested me other than a few other books. I think Twilight showed me that I can find books I like to read. It may be cliche because many teenagers read this book. Yet that does not bother me since I enjoyed reading it! -
College
Before attending Illinois State University, I went to Harper Community College for my associate's degree. For both Harper and ISU, there was/is reading involved for all of my courses. I read the textbooks, the articles and websites professors provide, and if there is a research assignment, I find and read articles and journals. To this day, my literacy is at its highest level. It is awesome to know it will continue to grow!
