It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.
I was a terrible reader as a kid. I mean terrible. Super slow and very unfocused. It took me forever to read a book, and I remember being well into high school and still needing my mom to sit down and read aloud to me so I could pass my English tests and such.
I read good. I was an English major.
I remember failing reading in school at a young age, and you just kinda get left behind and I felt helpless.
I had never attended high school, but I was fairly well read.
Obviously I had gone all through high school and into college, and you don't do that not knowing how to read.
I didn't think anything I wrote was going to get published. I'm a dyslexic kid who had tutors through college. But I had a very strong impulse to write.
Most of my teachers probably found I made less trouble if they let me read.
I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes were done in a single year.
Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with me. It was wonderful.