Hi everyone! I’m Paula Ortega Martínez and this is my first post.
This week in class we have had the seminar in which we have been talking about our experiences with storytelling and books, that we have read when we were little, so this has inspired me to tell you a little bit of my story and how books came to my life…; well I was not so young when I started to love reading books, I have been always a little bit lazy, so I could say that when I was little I didn’t felt so much comfortable with opening a book and started to read or just see the pictures as other child used to do.
I started to love reading when I was in fourth year of High School, the reason why I started reading more since that year was that I didn’t have any other form to scape, and the books that I read normally where the one that where mandatory to read in class; so I found a book in which the protagonist has the same problems as me. He hates mathematics, so one night he started dreaming with a devil who explains that mathematics isn’t so horrible, so I felt so close to that boy, that I continue reading. I think that I read that book at least seven times. When I felt a little bit worried about something I run to read some of this book called “The number devil”.
Another type of books that I read when I was little where comics, such as “Asterix and Obelix” ones, I always thought that this kind of books where easy to read because they have pictures instead of being plenty of words and that is what likes most of them. Another book that surprises me a lot was “Charlie and the chocolate factory”, I read it at school also and I love it, it was so creative.
After all this kind of books I started to read fantasy books, the ones in which you have to imagine all the world and all the things that the writer has describe, in this way I could imagine the story how I liked, and it was amazing, so I still reading that type because is the one I like the most.
Finally I would like to conclude saying that reading is not a thing that you must do, because is compulsory, is a thing that you should do because you like it, because you enjoy and you have fun doing it. “You know that you love reading when you find a book with the one you can’t stop reading until you finish it, you devour it”.
Hi paula! Today in class we have shared our reading maps with our classmates.
I liked so much your reading map because you have represent your ideas very clear. Also, I like fantasy books like you and I started to read as fun more or less with the same age as you.
I think when people start to read don´t like them much because most of times are books that you have to read compulsorily but every people have a book that changed their thinkings about reading and with this activity we can remember this special book and we have discovered that many of our classmates have coincidences in some books and pleasures
Other thing that it is important for reading is the environment in our house. I think that if your parents read, you also have attitude to read.
In addition, schools have to promote reading because it is very important to develop many skills as imagination, communication….and books do not have any damage.
So from this blog we have to encourage to read!!!
Thank you very much Nuria, for your comment! Im glad you write to me.
As well as you I liked so much this activity because thanks to it we have discover many things about our mates, I think it´s important to know them better, we have also see with type of books we all like and that we have many things in common as to books, storytelling and how we have started to reading.
I think this activity has contribute to know each other, and to see how we have started to reading and the kind of books we all read, and also to recommend books to our mates.