Time transcripts of Nicole

[00:00:00:26]	[ Ok, start by telling me your name and a little bit about yourself. ]

[00:00:05:02]	I'm Nicole Carr, I'm a freshman at Ohio State

[00:00:08:05]	I'm from Muncie, Indiana, majoring in biology.

[00:00:12:09]	[ What were some of your first experiences reading? ]

[00:00:16:14]	Um, when I was little my mom used to read me books

[00:00:20:12]	like typical baby books, like "I Love You Forever" and things like that.

[00:00:24:06]	Then, probably at the age of four my grandma started working with me

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[00:00:30:27]	like the "Fun With Dick and Jane" books,

[00:00:33:22]	and I actually learned how to read before my first day of kindergarten.

[00:00:38:07]	[ How do you think learning to read before school helped you academically? ]

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[00:00:44:17]	I was definitely ahead of all the other kids in my kindergarten class

[00:00:48:29]	and that put me into the advanced first grade class

[00:00:52:17]	and the advanced second grade class and so on,

[00:00:55:13]	so I think reading is definitely helpful if you learn before

[00:00:59:06]	because then it gives you just a little advantage.

[00:01:02:29]	[ Did your parents use that as a way to bond with you, by reading with you? ]

[00:01:08:03]	Yeah, definitely. Most of the time it was before bed

[00:01:13:00]	or something to do on a rainy day and

[00:01:17:00]	definitely at my grandma's house it was something to do, like reading books together.

[00:01:20:28]	[ What about your memories with writing? ]

[00:01:23:14]	Ohh writing. Um, I used to get those little writing books

[00:01:28:28]	that had the three lines on them

[00:01:31:15]	and you had to go in between the lines,

[00:01:33:05]	but never much of writing stories until I was actually in school.

[00:01:39:18]	[ Did you ever remember feeling illiterate for some reason,

[00:01:44:07]	like were you ever in a different part of the world where they spoke a different language?]

[00:01:49:27]	Um,

[00:01:52:17]	we went to the Dominican Republic one year, and that was

[00:01:56:08]	before I had taken any Spanish in school

[00:01:58:25]	and that was frustrating a little bit,

[00:02:00:13]	but for the most part they could understand English

[00:02:03:16]	or speak English to a certain extent, so you could kind of understand,

[00:02:06:22]	but at some points it would be frustrating.

[00:02:09:10]	[ What were your teachers like in school, like with reading,

[00:02:13:07]	like what influence did they have on you and your literacy?]

[00:02:16:28]	Just like in the typical reading is very important

[00:02:20:27]	to all teachers, and my grandma was a librarian

[00:02:25:26]	and my aunt's a librarian, so they pushed it too.

[00:02:28:29]	I understood like, I feel like once a week we had

[00:02:33:09]	library class. I don't know if they do that anymore but

[00:02:36:14]	yeah, we learned everything about books and stuff.

[00:02:39:22]	[ Did your sisters ever read with you? ]

[00:02:42:11]	It depends, they would usually read to me

[00:02:48:20]	because they were at a higher level, obviously,

[00:02:51:10]	and if they wanted to practice reading they would read to me,

[00:02:53:24]	but they were usually doing chapter books

[00:02:56:08]	and I was not that advanced yet.

[00:02:58:10]	[ What was your favorite book when you were little? ]

[00:03:00:09]	"Because of Winn Dixie" was my favorite book.

[00:03:03:24]	[ Do you have any other stand-out memories of reading

[00:03:08:28]	when you were younger, or even at a slightly older, grade school level?]

[00:03:12:21]	Actually, my great-uncle used to live with us and

[00:03:16:25]	if we had a book due for school or something and

[00:03:20:09]	we had to shower he would like, this sounds weird, but

[00:03:24:27]	we would get in the shower and he would read to us

[00:03:27:04]	to save time and we would know it

[00:03:29:04]	and he would ask us questions after it,

[00:03:31:01]	just 'cause he didn't have anything to do

[00:03:33:07]	and we used to love it if he would sit in there with us.

[00:03:36:15]	[ Well, thank you for sharing your story with us. ]

[00:03:40:05]	You're welcome.