>>LINDSEY GRIFFIN: My name is Lindsey Griffin and when I think about a time I noticed myself as a reader, I can remember in second grade the teacher would split us up in groups. And there were different color groups and I remember each group, looking at the students, my peers who were in that group and feeling like I was in the slow group. I always noticed that I read slower than everyone else. Although I was accurate, I was slow. And it took me time to process what I was reading and thinking about what it meant. And I always equated that with, I wasn't a good reader because the teacher would always tell me to hurry up, faster Lindsey, you need to read a little faster! And I never developed that joy because I was so self-conscious of how I sounded around my peers and how my teacher felt about my reading. Even though I understood what I was reading, even though I tried to enjoy the stories, my focus was on how fast I was reading and I never got to sit back and enjoy a book. So as I think about my experience, and I still carry that to this day. At times when we'll be at a staff meeting and we'll have to read something, it takes me some time to read it and I look around and my peers have highlighted and underlined and their all done and I still have that feeling back in second grade. Although now that I'm a teacher I know that fluency is not everything and I always tell my students that I'm not the fastest reader. I'm beginning to enjoy reading through the experiences of being a teacher.