Reading to me is mostly boring and I don't usually like to read books. There are, however, some books that I read when I was younger that was interesting. The Accelerated Reading in school is what got me to read books, even though I didn't like it so much. I read many books during school for the Accelerated Reading, but never read any at home for fun. For me to read a book and get deeply in to it, it had to be interesting and a type of story that I liked. Most books that I am interested in are adventure and mystery, because I would get into the story and want to find out the solution to everything. I just had to find a book that caught my mind and got me to actually want to read it.
About the time I was started 3rd grade was when I began reading chapter books. My reading level was probably average for the age. I had books at home that I bought and was interested in to read in school. I had a little amount of books because I never read for fun, just for school.
Then around 4th grade I still read some short chapter books but I began to read large books like the Harry Potter series and lots of other books. My most favorite books that I read were series that are adventure and mystery books. I read the first three Harry Potter books and they were the most fantastic and interest books that I read back then. Since those books were so long, I had to read most of them at home.
In 5th grade, I read the 3rd through 5th Harry Potter books. I wasn't one of those ultra fast readers that would read a large book in a couple of days. I took my time and made sure I understood the whole book, mostly for the test we had to take in school. When I was reading books that were boring to me I would read a chapter, maybe, and then get tired of it and take a long time to read the book. Thats why I had to find books that would catch my mind and make me read them.
When the last book of the Harry Potter series (the 7th book) came out I was in 6th grade and so I read it then. That book was and still is my favorite book of all that I have ever read. The Harry Potter series was not the only big series that I read. I read the Dairy of a Wimpy Kid series and a bunch of series that were popular.
Reading all these great books got me to like reading books even though I never read any books for fun. I've only read a couple of books outside of school since the AR ended after 7th grade. Now I could read books if I wanted to but I never do becuase I don't ever want to read for fun. I can read things for school without trouble because I learned to like reading somethings.
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