My Literacy Narrative

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by Kasey Schuster2 views·Updated Feb 6, 2022
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  1. Hi, my name is Casey Schuster and this is my literacy narrative
  2. for as long as I can remember. I've always had an interest in reading and writing.
  3. My mom is an elementary language arts teacher 31 years and going
  4. so she knew how to keep me interested and would teach me at home.
  5. She definitely made the biggest impact on me when it came to literature.
  6. When I was just learning how to read.
  7. My mom would have me read along with her when she read me bedtime stories
  8. from watching and listening to her.
  9. I learned how to be expressive and have good pronunciation
  10. when I read out loud and not talk monotone.
  11. She has always told me she's super impressed that I have a good speaking voice.
  12. So of course every time I read out loud
  13. I make sure to watch my tone so I can keep impressing her
  14. a toy. My mom got me to help learn. Writing is called Aqua doodle.
  15. You fill a pen with water
  16. drawn. The four x 4 Paddock came with and it evaporates after about five minutes.
  17. It's meant for drawing. But I've never been an artistic person.
  18. So I would write story after story on the pad.
  19. I remember trying to write a story with backwards
  20. letters once and it turned out pretty well.
  21. I'm not gonna lie.
  22. Another thing she would do is she would buy
  23. me reading and writing practice books for the summer
  24. and I remember enjoying them a lot
  25. when I was bored and didn't have anyone to play with. I went straight for that book.
  26. The feeling of accomplishment I got when I finished a chapter and got them all right,
  27. when my mom would praise me for doing well, it was addicting.
  28. So I kept pushing myself to learn more and get better.
  29. Typically schools don't let kids have their parents as teachers,
  30. but I got lucky and got to have my mom for a teacher in fourth grade.
  31. She had two falls full of shelves of books in her classroom
  32. and I remember being so stoked about that because there was so much to choose from.
  33. A lot of the books I read from her library have shaped me into who I am today
  34. because she had many different levels of books, not just ones for young kids.
  35. I remember that class being one of the best classes and not just because she's my mom
  36. in that class, we learned cursive,
  37. practiced handwriting and spelling and had lots of reading time
  38. basically. Most of the things I really enjoyed in literature
  39. when we had spelling tests coming up,
  40. she would give me pop quizzes at home to keep me on my toes and it helped me a lot.
  41. I think I only ever got a handful of words
  42. wrong during the actual test throughout the whole year.
  43. Usually if kids enjoying reading at a young age,
  44. they lose interest when they get to middle school because it's no longer
  45. fun and easy books and you can't choose what you read.
  46. I wasn't that way that it was unsurprisingly
  47. just like when I was a kid,
  48. I wanted to keep pushing myself to be better at literature to impress my mom.
  49. So I took everything head on
  50. In a class in seventh grade.
  51. There was a competition to see how many books you can read over break and
  52. we have to choose from a list of 100 books the teacher gave us,
  53. I believe I read 78 of them, which was about 40 more books than anyone else
  54. granted they were middle school level books and my
  55. reading level was definitely in the high school range.
  56. Even though my reading level was high,
  57. I still stumbled upon a lot of words that I didn't know the meaning of.
  58. So per usual, I went to my mom and she always knew the definition.
  59. Sometimes she would randomly asked me at home
  60. the definition of words I had previously asked her
  61. to make sure I remember them and we would turn it into a game to help me.
  62. Thanks to my mom,
  63. I was able to have fun with my reading and learning and it made a world of difference.
  64. It made me want to keep learning,
  65. which is not something a lot of middle school kids want to do.
  66. High school was a little more difficult for me, higher expectations,
  67. harder books with longer essays, you know how it goes.
  68. Don't get me wrong. I still loved reading the books.
  69. It was the essays that I was mainly struggling with.
  70. So when I'm stuck on my essay and have no clue what I'm doing, I'd go to my mom
  71. no matter how busy she was with her teacher duties,
  72. she made time to help me understand what I'm supposed to be doing.
  73. She always knew what I needed to do and how to do it.
  74. Since I have at,
  75. my mom would always check in to see how far I've progressed and that helps so much.
  76. She always knows exactly what I need to learn the best.
  77. My mom would also give me lunchbox cards every day with positive
  78. affirmations in them
  79. and would write me a note on the back
  80. and I still have a few I've kept because they mean so much to me.
  81. Thanks to my mom english classes went a lot smoother than they
  82. would have if I didn't have her around to ask these questions
  83. to this day. I still ask my mom for help and to this day she still makes time,
  84. I'll send her the papers I'm running for school so she can give me feedback and revise
  85. and she always gives me great advice that ends up being
  86. that ends up helping immensely
  87. throughout my life.
  88. My mom would teach me important skills to use when I win
  89. writing and thanks to all the literature games I played with her,
  90. I've been able to remember them and use them accordingly
  91. while getting better every time I use them.
  92. Thanks to my mom, helping me keep interest in literature.
  93. Since I was a kid,
  94. I've been able to enjoy reading and writing throughout my entire life.
  95. My mom is my biggest supporter and help me prove to
  96. myself that I can keep learning as long as I push myself
  97. and of course, never shying away from asking for help.