Week 2

In my reading class, Read 056, we do a lot of reading of chapter books and many other things. Reading has always been a problem for me. I really never read in my own free time and I never really read when we had to in high school. So practice in reading was never really done for me. Now that I’m a freshman in college I see that reading is done all the time especially in a reading class. So whether or not I like it I’m always reading. The reason I have problems in reading is because I always have my mind somewhere else. Half way through the page I loose focus and don’t remember anything I read which causes misunderstanding throughout the whole story. That’s the reason I don’t do it on my free time. The only time this happens is when I read something I’m really interested in, that’s when I find myself really paying attention. My family isn’t much of a reader either so that’s probably why I struggle. Growing up as a kid the only person that has ever really pushed me to read was my grandpa but other then that no one ever really pushed me to read. Its either I read or I didn’t. I don’t really remember my parents reading to me either when I was little. I never had reading done in my house when I was younger which is why I struggle now. I’m a pretty good reader when I want to be but when I’m not interested in it I have trouble.