. In one assignment the Dandy Song (13) I learned to use all my literacy skills and learn how to use the computer. This assignment also taught me how to be versatile in creating my own words to the tune of an existing song similar to Yankee Doodle.One of the things I remember most about third grade is creating my own personal library. I would gather all the books in the bookshelves and placed them alphabetically around the playroom. I even had a check out station with a typewriter to put the Due-Back Dates inside the books. I had furthermore taken the time to create my own book called What Ifs (14). In my library setting I was using all the skills I was taught in school; including my library skills.My Fifth Grade English teacher is the reason why I want to become a teacher with an English degree. She made literacy so much fun. In her class we were assigned a book report every month. For the book report, like Round Trip Space Ship, (15) we had to make a cover and inside follow her writing format instructions. The best part of our project was to present our book reports in class by dressing up as one of the main characters in the story. In this particular book report I had fun dressing up as a cute little alien. This idea gave me a real feel for what it was like to truly be that character. Mrs. Paris also had us keep journals in class. Here she would give us a topic and we took about fifteen minutes to write our thoughts out. The fact that she took the time to write back to us made me excited and eager to write in my journal. This helped give me the idea to maintain a pen pal relationship with one of my friends from church.Throughout my years of learning literacy I have combined my knowledge into different experiences. I have written papers, articles for newspapers (16), read to younger to children, and much more. My own philosophy as a teacher is to be a Reading Mentor to my students. I want to show my students that li...
