Assignment.1 Kendall Robinson

My earliest memory of reading is from the day before I started kindergarten. I went to "Meet your teacher night" with my mom, where Ms. Sarita gave each of us a book called "A Wishy, Washy Day". It was the first book that I was able to read all by myself and I sat in the classroom and read it with my mom. Before I was able to read on my own, my mom and dad read to my brother, sister and I every night before bed. My grandmother also read to me when she came to visit. She gave me a whole series of books about talking animals that we read together. In third grade, each student got to invite someone who was a role model to come in to our class and read with us. I invited Tori Seibert, who was my favorite UNC volleyball player at the time. As a huge UNC fan and a volleyball player, and after watching Tori play in so many games, I thought it was the coolest thing to get to read with her in my classroom. I was always forced to read when I was a kid and having to read inside the club house while my friends were playing in the pool during summer break, didn't make me like it very much. My mom made us read an hour every night and we had to read a certain number of books each summer. She still encourages me to read, but now that it's not forced upon me, I do enjoy reading as long as it's a book I like.