Hello everybody! Welcome to my first post!
Some days ago with Raquel, we were working on our memories about how we learnt or started reading, which books were important for us in our lives, which didn’t and why.
It was an ‘emotive’ and great lesson, I enjoyed it a lot and for this reason I want to show you my ‘travel trough the reading’ and I’m going to explain a little bit about it.
I have to say, that I don’t really remember how I started reading, but the memories that I have about that are related with my mother reading for me in the bed, before sleeping. Before that I didn’t like read a lot, maybe because of the bad books that we had to read at school, they were horrible! But one day, I was with my parents in my aunt’s house and I was really bored, but something changed, my aunt gave me a book called ‘Asesinato en el Canadian Express’, a book with a lot of mystery that involved me in a great adventure full of intrigue and in this moment I started to love reading.
When I was in the high school I had a similar feeling like at the school…all books were horrible, when we had to read a new book was like a pain, but one year we had to read a book called ‘Pupila de Ágila’ that I enjoyed a lot, and made me think a lot about the life.
The next step of my adventure that I consider very important was when I say my mother reading compulsively a book, (I have to say that my mother doesn’t like read a lot), she ‘devoured’ it! So it made me feel that I needed to know what it was about. When she finished reading some pages of the book, she told me little things about what was happening in the story and that made feel that I needed read that interested book. Finally I stole it and I devoured it too. It’s called ‘El clan del oso cavernario’ and I consider it so important, because for me, this book was a big book, one that adults read, so I was adult too.
In general, the books that I liked the most were about fantasy, like ‘memorias de idhun’, one that I remember with a lot of affection, a story about goods, unicorns, dragons, war…
Finally now a days, in the university I read some books that I didn’t like a lot but they have make me think and I considered necessaries to be a good teacher and to help myself in this way. One that I remember that surprised me pleasantly was ‘Lo que hacen los mejores profesores universitarios’ by Kein Bain. It was a very interesting book in spite of not being the typical kind of books that I use to read. It was about what things should/shouldn’t do the teachers in their classes, and what strategies, activities and keys should follow a teacher to be a great one. In my opinion it is a book that all teachers should read at least once in their lives.
It has been a great walk through my life that showed me how much it has changed along the time, how my tastes have been changing, how I have been growing up, and my books with me.
Now a day I don’t have a defined kind of books, I like different types and my mine is open (even loving romance stories, because I’ m a girl and we love that ‘silly things’ ;)) and I’m sure that my walk will be growing more and more.
Hi Sara, first of all I have to say I really liked your post, I also consider the reading-memories class as a really interesting one.
I don´t remember really much of my first reading experience but I do remember some little scenes and flashes, as you said it was an emotive experience to remembering those things, I can remember that my first “experiences” reading were mostly related with my grandfather and my mother, but in the case of my grandfather it was when I was really young, maybe 3 or 4 years old, I remember that before sleeping, he used to get into my bedroom and read books with me, well, actually he was reading and I was sited next to him being focused on the images, but I think it was a great experience.
With my mother it was a really different thing, I remember when I was 13-14 she thought it would be a good idea to start reading something with me at the same time, so we took the first book of Harry potter and we started reading it together, after some sessions we kept reading it on our own but we were talking and discussing about it after. I remember that was the first book I red alone.
Now most of the books I read are related with psychology, self helping and also related with the degree I’m studying, because I totally agree with what you said, I just need to be prepared to teach children so I have to read books about it, even if I really prefer to teach instead of read about teaching .
“…even loving romance stories, because I’ m a girl and we love that ‘silly things’ ;)” I liked to read that, so cute
thanks a lot kris i’m really happy for your coment, yes it’s amazing how much important things we forget allong our lives but that we don’t really forget, you know what i mean? my situation was really similar with my mum :).
haha i was joking!
I had a great moment reading your experiences about reading, they have been so sweet, thanks for share it with me
And don’t be shy that i know that you read romace stories too
I really like your post. I think you have explained in a clear way your experience reading since you were a child.
I like your process because I think it is a beautiful way to remeber and it´s something that you don´t think in this with frequency.
AS you, I can ´t remember my first steps reading, but I have some little recalls when I started to read with syllabus.
Other thing that you comment is that like most of the children at the begining don´t like to read until you find a really important book that change these thinkings.
AS you said many books that like to children are full of adventures, intrigue and fantasy.
I consider that you really like to read when you choose a book that you wish to read this book and you cannot let up reading and you are inside the story. I think this feeling is very important to feel, especially when you are a child.
thanks for your coment Nuria, I would like to know about your story but probably we will do it soon with Raquel so I’ll mantain the mistery about your experiences
It’s true that somethimes the problem are books and no children and I thing that this is something that we, as a future teachers, have to take into a count!