Time transcripts of christinetrimmed

[00:00:00:00]	Hi my name is Christine Kappesser. This is my 

[00:00:04:01]	literacy narrative. When I was little my parents would read to me, I

[00:00:08:01]	don't remember when they started, but they would read books to me and they'd always let me pick

[00:00:12:01]	them out, but my sister would get read to at the same time as me so my dad

[00:00:16:02]	would sit in between us or my mom, whoever did it that night, it was equal

[00:00:20:02]	...we'd each sit on one side and they'd have the book

[00:00:24:02]	so we could look at the pictures as he read it and then as we started

[00:00:28:02]	to get older, as my sister started to get older, she would some

[00:00:32:02]	and then as I started to get older, I would read some but

[00:00:36:03]	if my parents ever weren't sitting in between us, then they would take the book and

[00:00:40:03]	go like this to show us the pictures very slowly so

[00:00:44:03]	that is how I first got started on reading. A lot of the books that we read

[00:00:48:04]	were classic children books like _Dr. Seuss_

[00:00:52:04]	and..._Arthur_ books

[00:00:56:04]	I liked _Arthur_ and _Spot_, I like _Spot_.

[00:01:00:04]	and my favorite book was _Somebody

[00:01:04:05]	and the Three Blairs_, which was basically the Goldie Locks story

[00:01:08:05]	with the three bears, but instead 

[00:01:12:05]	it's just a lot more humorous and less serious

[00:01:16:06]	and the little baby, and it just cute so that was my favorite

[00:01:20:06]	book...For grade school

[00:01:24:06]	I remember we'd have to read certain books off a list, usually ones that were in the school

[00:01:28:07]	library and then in order to get credit for them for our reading class

[00:01:32:07]	we'd have to do this thing called Accelerated Reading, which

[00:01:36:07]	would be quizzes based off the book that we read so we'd come in and be like, 'ok

[00:01:40:08]	I read this book' and you'd go to the computer and you'd type

[00:01:44:08]	in that book and type in your name and everything and then it would ask you

[00:01:48:08]	questions on it. There were usually about ten but it was always my least

[00:01:52:08]	favorite thing to do cuz I am the worst with reading comprehension

[00:01:56:08]	but I did pretty decent. I usually passed

[00:02:00:09]	...but i did not like it very much and then

[00:02:04:09]	if you did well on those or if you read

[00:02:08:09]	a lot of books, sometimes there would just be a lot of 

[00:02:12:10]	points that you could get, and Pizza Hut would give you coupons

[00:02:16:10]	and like a litle mini medal for doing well on all of these tests

[00:02:20:10]	and then you could take the whole family and go to Pizza Hut and get like a free pizza

[00:02:24:10]	and it was a lot of fun. I remember I liked those, you get like a little medal, feel special

[00:02:28:11]	...A lot of the books I read as I started to get older

[00:02:32:11]	had to do with dolphins cuz I was a big dolphin fan so if

[00:02:36:12]	there ever was a book about facts about dolphins

[00:02:40:12]	it was usually dolphins and whales, then I would like 

[00:02:44:12]	to read that book and I would read it and it had pictures so I knew a lot about dolphins

[00:02:48:12]	...As I got older, I read the whole _Harry Potter_ 

[00:02:52:13]	Series and I could not put those down, those were super good

[00:02:56:13]	and then, except I read them all really young so by the time the last

[00:03:00:14]	one came out, I was a little rusty, but I still enjoyed it 

[00:03:04:14]	and I also read the whole _Twilight Saga_, that whole series

[00:03:08:14]	...I remember I was on spring break in

[00:03:12:14]	Florida with my family and my grandparents and my

[00:03:16:15]	grandparents kept yelling at me cuz I would not stop reading the book and they were like 'hey

[00:03:20:16]	spend time with us. This is family time not reading time' and 

[00:03:24:16]	I'd be like 'ah, sorry I just can't put it down' and there was even this one time we went to

[00:03:28:16]	dinner and they made me leave the book in the car while we

[00:03:32:16]	went into the restaurant and I asked them if I could go out to the car

[00:03:36:16]	to get my jacket just so I had an excuse to read the book cuz I was at

[00:03:40:17]	the best part where Bella has to run to the belltower and save Edward

[00:03:44:17]	and I was like 'oh my god' so I asked for my coat and they said 'don't

[00:03:48:17]	you go out there and read that book' and I was like 'I'm not going to'

[00:03:52:18]	and they think they knew that I did cuz it took me a while to come back

[00:03:56:18]	and that was like junior year of high school or something

[00:04:00:19]	so but usually, in my free time, I'll read some but

[00:04:04:19]	I went through a phase where I was just too busy and I had too much schoolwork 

[00:04:08:19]	to do leisure work and reading for school and everything and I remember

[00:04:12:20]	we'd have to do projects based off certain books like

[00:04:16:20]	l remember _Holes_, we had to make a craft with like a

[00:04:20:20]	yellow spotted lizard or something and so I did the

[00:04:24:21]	bead key chains that were like a huge deal at that time that you make

[00:04:28:21]	at home and I made one of those for the book but usually I hated

[00:04:32:22]	book reports cuz I'm just not good at reading comprehension at all

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[00:04:40:22]	Interviewer: How was the community that you grew up in? Did it support reading?

[00:04:44:23]	Christine: Yes. Well my parents supported reading, they'd always try to get me to. The

[00:04:48:23]	library at...just in

[00:04:52:23]	Anderson Township. The library would have this thing where you would

[00:04:56:24]	log the number of books that you like read

[00:05:00:24]	and then as you like read the first ten, you could go in, they'd give you a small

[00:05:04:24]	prize, usually it's like a key chain, and then as you read like another ten, you'd go in and 

[00:05:08:24]	get like a bigger prize and then you just kept going and you'd try to compete with other

[00:05:12:25]	kids and you'd want to go in and get prizes all the time and keep reading books, that way

[00:05:16:25]	you could say that you read them and go get your prize so I always looked

[00:05:20:25]	forward to that and that really encouraged me to read in the summer cuz otherwise I probably

[00:05:24:25]	wouldn't have read. Oh and I remember I used to get books

[00:05:28:26]	on tape from the library. I'd look for certain books and then I'd put it

[00:05:32:26]	in the tape recording and it would like read it to me as I went and I think that

[00:05:36:26]	helped a lot with my reading skills because I could

[00:05:40:26]	look at how it was pronounced by someone without having it, my parents read to

[00:05:44:27]	me or anything and it would tell me how to pronounce something and everything

[00:05:48:27]	but my parents would always be ok with me like, 'how do you pronounce this?

[00:05:52:27]	and everything' and then my sister. I remember my sister we'd always

[00:05:56:28]	play like teacher time and she'd be the teacher since she knew more, obviously

[00:06:00:28]	and so she'd teach me certain things then, like reading

[00:06:04:28]	like she'd draw on the chalkboard and I'd have to tell her what like

[00:06:08:28]	letter it was and everything so that was helpful

[00:06:12:29]	and she'd make small words and then I'd have to guess what they were...

[00:06:16:29]	Interviewer: Is she older than you? Christine: She is. She is three years older than me so

[00:06:20:29]	she always was one step ahead, especially with school so

[00:06:24:29]	she helped me with stuff like reading and math and

[00:06:28:29]	random stuff like that and yeah. And I remember I was never

[00:06:33:00]	the best reader in class I was, and we didn't exactly have groups

[00:06:37:00]	but I would have been in the non-advanced group cuz I was

[00:06:41:01]	not a fast reader, I'm just very slow. And I

[00:06:45:01]	like to take my time and then as I take my time, I develop pictures, but the one thing I like

[00:06:49:01]	about reading is that you can make your own, like

[00:06:53:02]	you can pronounce things your own way in your head, like when I was reading

[00:06:57:02]	and...and then...let's

[00:07:01:02]	see. Yeah so I always liked that about reading, how you could make up your people, but as I got older

[00:07:05:02]	I...didn't have as

[00:07:09:03]	much free time like now that I'm in college, you have to read text books so

[00:07:13:03]	much that really you don't have as much time to read unless it's like over break

[00:07:17:03]	or something like I have a list of books right now that I want to read that

[00:07:21:04]	all my friends are like 'oh my god, it's so good' but I'm like oh, well I

[00:07:25:04]	haven't had a chance to yet, but maybe over Christmas or like next summer

[00:07:29:04]	or in my spare time, I can just read. Not on spring break though cuz my family will get mad

[00:07:33:04]	but we'll see so yeah. And I remember 

[00:07:37:05]	my parents when they'd read to us, they'd always make little voices

[00:07:41:05]	for each character which is probably why _Somebody and the Three Blairs_ 

[00:07:45:06]	was so funny cuz for the baby, they'd make like little

[00:07:49:06]	kid voice and I thought it was funny but it was always amusing to have

[00:07:53:06]	especially my dad, my dad was really good at making

[00:07:57:07]	voice, different voices for each of the characters so

[00:08:01:07]	yeah. Interviewer: Ok, well do you have anything else to say? Christine:...No

[00:08:05:07]	I think that's it. Interviewer: Alright, thank you. Christine: Thanks.