| [00:00:00.01] | Hi my name is Roxanne and this is my literacy narrative. |
| [00:00:04.02] | I grew up in Cincinnati in the suburbs and |
| [00:00:08.02] | ...both my parents worked my whole life |
| [00:00:12.04] | so I was put in a daycare slash |
| [00:00:16.05] | preschool at the age of like six weeks |
| [00:00:20.05] | ...so during the day I was always taken care of and |
| [00:00:24.06] | watched over by...the daycare workers |
| [00:00:28.07] | as opposed to my parents. So a lot of my reading |
| [00:00:32.08] | experience that I remember from that age is |
| [00:00:36.09] | at...daycare and |
| [00:00:40.10] | one...experience that really sticks out in my mind is |
| [00:00:44.11] | when, it was the year before preschool or |
| [00:00:48.12] | before kindergarten and like our teacher for that year in preschool |
| [00:00:52.13] | slash daycare made us like read this book |
| [00:00:56.14] | I forget what it was but it was one of those books that has like two words |
| [00:01:00.15] | per page with giant pictures and it's like "dog" and like "run" |
| [00:01:04.16] | but I thought it was the biggest deal ever and she made us read it in front of the class |
| [00:01:08.18] | and I still have like a |
| [00:01:12.19] | photographic like memory of that in my brain |
| [00:01:16.20] | ...but I, I remember like feeling great afterwards |
| [00:01:20.21] | too like I just read so I already kind of like had a |
| [00:01:24.22] | foundation of reading going into kindergarten |
| [00:01:28.23] | and then once I got into kindergarten |
| [00:01:32.24] | ...we did the basic like learn your letters kind of thing |
| [00:01:36.25] | and the way they did that at the school I went to was they used letter people |
| [00:01:40.26] | and I guess, probably every week we would do a different |
| [00:01:44.27] | letter or something and there would be like videos that we would watch on them |
| [00:01:48.28] | and like each letter would kind of have a, it's own personality |
| [00:01:52.29] | so that was |
| [00:01:56.30] | my non-family...literacy experience |
| [00:02:00.31] | that I can remember from when I was little but... |
| [00:02:04.32] | [ laugh ] My |
| [00:02:08.34] | parents also definitely read to me and I remember that. It was mainly |
| [00:02:12.35] | like the normal before you go to bed like reading kind of thing |
| [00:02:16.36] | ...but they didn't read to me |
| [00:02:20.38] | for very long, like they probably |
| [00:02:24.39] | stopped reading to me when I was probably |
| [00:02:28.41] | like first or second or third grade cuz they never really read big books like I hear |
| [00:02:32.42] | a lot of people who's parents read them like _Harry Potter_ or like _Lord of the Rings_ and my |
| [00:02:36.43] | parents, the only things I remember them reading to me were _The Tickle Octopus_ which |
| [00:02:40.44] | was like a goofy book about these prehistoric people |
| [00:02:44.45] | who like find a pet octopus and it tickles them and... |
| [00:02:48.46] | _Goodnight Moon_, which is a really simple book but they like read them |
| [00:02:52.47] | to me and my sister cuz she's younger than me so it's probably why I remember that |
| [00:02:56.48] | one...So they would do that before |
| [00:03:00.49] | I went to bed but other than that I don't |
| [00:03:04.51] | really remember them reading to me or...really |
| [00:03:08.52] | encouraging me to read. The only encouragement I remember |
| [00:03:12.53] | getting to read was from like school and we did have to do a lot of that for |
| [00:03:16.53] | school so that's probably why I never did anything outside of school like even |
| [00:03:20.55] | from first and second grade, we were always like reading books in school |
| [00:03:24.55] | even if they were, or we would have to do like sustained silent reading in class |
| [00:03:28.57] | or we would have to read like a certain number of books per |
| [00:03:32.58] | quarter or something but they were just like little books like Nancy Drew... |
| [00:03:36.59] | but... |
| [00:03:40.60] | I feel like since I went to a good like |
| [00:03:44.62] | ...elementary school and preschool |
| [00:03:48.62] | that kind of like helped me out nowadays because I've like taken AP classes |
| [00:03:52.64] | in high school and I'm in the Honors program here |
| [00:03:56.65] | so like that foundation that they gave me, that they pushed me has like |
| [00:04:00.67] | instilled in me to push myself now... |
| [00:04:04.68] | But I think it also might have like |
| [00:04:08.69] | backfired as well a little bit because I don't like reading now |
| [00:04:12.71] | and it might be because I was like always forced to like even |
| [00:04:16.72] | all the way up to high school like I took AP English senior year |
| [00:04:20.73] | and it was just so many books and I was like I'm never reading again. I just actually |
| [00:04:24.73] | got around to reading Harry Potter this past summer and that's, I've liked loved |
| [00:04:28.75] | the movies my whole life and I finally read them this summer. |
| [00:04:32.76] | ...so is that enough |
| [00:04:36.78] | do you think? Ok, that's basically it. Interviewer: Alright, thank you. Roxanne: Ok, you're welcome |