Literacy Interview

Try to think of your earliest memories of writing and reading.  What do you remember of reading and writing before you began school?  Who helped you with it and what was that like?

“Learning to read and write was an interesting experience for me. I was born in Brazil, and grew up speaking portuguese. was fairly fluent in speaking Portuguese until we moved to the States when i was 4. I went to a spanish immersion school, because I guess my parents thought that was close enough. Needless to say, it took some time to learn, but because my father is an English speaker, I was able to pick it up, and by the 6th grade I was reading above my grade level. Keep in mind, I’m incredibly smart”