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Literacy History

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When I think about my earliest experience of being literate, I can remember it in detail. My mother has been a pre-k teacher for years, and she started teaching around the same time I started to read. Even if i  had no clue what I was reading she made sure I always had a book in my hand, and eventually I started reading before I even left kindergarten. I was determined to learn how to read, and my mother was there every step of the way encouraging me and supporting me whether I knew a word or not. What inspire me to want to learn how to read was going to school with my mo  while she was getting her teaching license I was always around books and somehow tried to do the same work she did even though I had no idea  what was happening. When I began to feel like I was literate, I was in first grade. I got my first chapter book, which was "Junie B. Jones: First grader" and I was in class with people who still couldn't read yet. Nothing in the process of these early stages r