My literate identity
As a reader and a writer I can say I have personally grown from a novice reader and writer to becoming an expert. I have had numerous experiences that have impacted what I read and how I write. My family has played a crucial role in my development and a reader and a writer. From a young age my parents have always fostered the idea of education playing an important role in my life. As a child my mother and father would read books to me every night before bed, or my father would make up a bed time story in which we would create together. By creating a bed time story that allowed me to interact with and add details, this carried over into my writing. I became more creative with the stories that I would write and illustrate.
If you could interview the six year old me about literacy you would see an active six year old girl who would read anything and everything that she could get her hands on. You would see a six year old girl who wouldn't know what the word literacy meant, but you would see a girl who was very eager to read anything the teacher or friends handed to her. You would see a six year old girl that loved being in the school environment around her friends and teachers. You would see a girl who was always actively participating within the classroom, and you would see a girl who never took naps. During nap time you would hear me as a six year old girl lying on her cot next to the teacher’s desk talking to Mr. Smith about anything and everything while the other children took a nap.
If we could interview me at the age of fifty after teaching literacy for twenty years, I would say I still have at least twenty more years of teaching literacy left in me before I retire. I would still be as active as I am today, both mentally active by learning new material, techniques and skills and physically active. I would still be working with my students in small group settings, actively involving movement in my classroom and choosing engaging texts for my students to read. I would say that I've helped numerous students with their literacy abilities, and I still continue on helping many more.
If you could interview the six year old me about literacy you would see an active six year old girl who would read anything and everything that she could get her hands on. You would see a six year old girl who wouldn't know what the word literacy meant, but you would see a girl who was very eager to read anything the teacher or friends handed to her. You would see a six year old girl that loved being in the school environment around her friends and teachers. You would see a girl who was always actively participating within the classroom, and you would see a girl who never took naps. During nap time you would hear me as a six year old girl lying on her cot next to the teacher’s desk talking to Mr. Smith about anything and everything while the other children took a nap.
If we could interview me at the age of fifty after teaching literacy for twenty years, I would say I still have at least twenty more years of teaching literacy left in me before I retire. I would still be as active as I am today, both mentally active by learning new material, techniques and skills and physically active. I would still be working with my students in small group settings, actively involving movement in my classroom and choosing engaging texts for my students to read. I would say that I've helped numerous students with their literacy abilities, and I still continue on helping many more.