Personal Narrative: If Pigs Could Fly

My earliest memories of reading go all the way back to when my favorite book to have read to me was “If Pigs Could Fly”, I would have my parents read me this book all the time when I was a kid. I was read to a lot as a child which I think has made me into a better reader today, I always loved books when I was little and I collected every Dr. Seuss book and started learning to read them before I entered elementary school. I had almost every book and cherished my collection and continued to add to it for years after. I credit my ability to read so young to reading all of those books we had because I had an older sister who was able to read and I followed in her footsteps. I read before Kindergarten started, because I began reading at a high level as a five-year-old. Reading in elementary school was more of a hobby for me because I was able to choose my own books and grow my own reading skills and reading wasn’t required or assigned which didn’t make it have negative connotations along with it. Some of my favorite books were the “Among the Hidden” series, in which I read every book. So, from short stories to chapter books I did continue …show more content…
I used to write about everything I did, even when I was little I would fill my daily journals with every little thing I could think of. Writing has always been more intriguing for me because it was you and your own ideas, wheather it was creative writing and I got to write short stories and personal writings, or even an assigned research paper. I have always worked to become a better writer, even all the way back in elementary school I was taking PACT courses which strongly improved my writing skill, along with the middle school PACT courses such as Future City which we had to write a formal research paper and present it as just sixth graders, and the creative writing courses in both middle school and high