The Literacy of Life
It's quite interesting to think about how much literacy impacts our day-to-day lives. Being unable to understand words and read them is a skill that would hamper our ability to do normal tasks greatly. 1. The Beginning of my literacy journey I have to say that this will be one of my more boring sections as I can hardly remember the time I first became literate. My memory is quite poor, so I'd have to assume that I became literate through the help of children's television and my general curiosity when outdoors. My family would always bring me wherever they would have to run chores, so I would gain interest and ask what words mean and how to pronounce them. So television and my parents helped feed my curiosity of words at a young age. My family tried their best to make me the best at literacy, attempting to teach me English and Spanish words. They clearly favored me learning Spanish words due to our Hispanic heritage, but I came out a stronger English speaker and reader tha...
