Blog #3

For my interview, I decided to interview two family members, my grandpa and my mom. The reason I decided to interview both of them was because, after I talked with my grandpa, I thought it would be interesting to interview my mom to see how much literacy had changed between their generations. I found it interesting to see how much education had changed between the almost 30 years difference in school attendance between the two, one addition being kindergarten. While I don’t know the specifics of what or how each of them learned different concepts, it was evident that reading and writing skills were taught first thing when entering school due to the importance of these concepts to successfully move on through school. The two had different family backgrounds, which influenced their ability to learn to read and write, my grandpa having a less involved family due to circumstances with the war and his mom having to be a single parent and work until his dad returned, and my mom had an involved family, with her mom reading to her and having older siblings as role models. Due to the lack of attention at home, this may have been a reason why my grandpa struggled with learning to read and write, while my mom found it easy to read and write. Early engagement of reading is crucial to their concept of understanding how to read and write as we have learned from research throughout time. I liked getting to know more about my family’s upbringings and background more too.