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Your favorite reading memories from school

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Elementary, junior high/middle school, high school, college..... what are your favorite memories around reading during those years? Anything in particular make a lasting impression on you?
 
The "Weekly Reader"

Weekly Reader was a weekly educational classroom magazine designed for children. It began in 1928 as My Weekly Reader. Editions covered curriculum themes in the younger grade levels and news-based, current events and curriculum themed-issues in older grade levels. The publishing company also created workbooks, literacy centers, and picture books for younger grades.

In 2012, Weekly Reader ceased operations as an independent publication and merged with its new owner, Scholastic News, due primarily to market pressures to create digital editions as well as decreasing school budgets.[1][2]

Formerly My Weekly Reader, the Weekly Reader was a weekly newspaper for elementary school children. It was first published by the American Education Press of Columbus, Ohio, which had been founded in 1902 by Charles Palmer Davis to publish Current Events, a paper for secondary school children.[3] The first issue appeared on September 21, 1928.[4]

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A book as a child I got lost in.

My Side of the Mountain

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Sam Gribley is a 12-year-old boy who intensely dislikes living in his parents' cramped New York City apartment with his eight brothers and sisters. He decides to run away to his great-grandfather's abandoned farm in the Catskill Mountainsto live in the wilderness. The novel begins in the middle of Sam's story, with Sam huddled in his treehouse home in the forest during a severe blizzard. Frightful, Sam's pet peregrine falcon, and The Baron, a weasel, share the home with him. In a flashback, Sam reminisces about how he came to be there.

Sam heard about his grandfather's abandoned farm near Delhi, New York, learned wilderness survival skills by reading a book at the New York City Public Library, and how Sam's father permitted him to go to Delhi, and, while he didn't think that Sam would survive, said that if he made it, to tell someone in town.

Unable at first to locate the farm, Sam tries to survive on his own but finds his skills are not up to the task. He meets Bill, a man living in a cabin in the woods, who teaches him how to make a fire.

Sam goes into town and is told where his grandfather's land is. Sam finds the farm but discovers the farmhouse is no longer standing.

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Josie said:
Elementary, junior high/middle school, high school, college..... what are your favorite memories around reading during those years? Anything in particular make a lasting impression on you?
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Our 1st grade teacher read Charlette's Web to us, and it was incredible
 
“Journey To Matecumbe” Robert Lewis Taylor

“Travels With Jamie McPheeters” same author.

They read well for an adult as well as a teen, imo.
 
Josie said:
Elementary, junior high/middle school, high school, college..... what are your favorite memories around reading during those years? Anything in particular make a lasting impression on you?
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SRA Reading Comprehension.

That's what got me started reading...which I've done my entire life.
 
Mycroft said:
SRA Reading Comprehension.

That's what got me started reading...which I've done my entire life.
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As in --- the SRA curriculum?
 
VySky said:
The "Weekly Reader"

Weekly Reader was a weekly educational classroom magazine designed for children. It began in 1928 as My Weekly Reader. Editions covered curriculum themes in the younger grade levels and news-based, current events and curriculum themed-issues in older grade levels. The publishing company also created workbooks, literacy centers, and picture books for younger grades.

In 2012, Weekly Reader ceased operations as an independent publication and merged with its new owner, Scholastic News, due primarily to market pressures to create digital editions as well as decreasing school budgets.[1][2]

Formerly My Weekly Reader, the Weekly Reader was a weekly newspaper for elementary school children. It was first published by the American Education Press of Columbus, Ohio, which had been founded in 1902 by Charles Palmer Davis to publish Current Events, a paper for secondary school children.[3] The first issue appeared on September 21, 1928.[4]

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I loved Weekly Reader!
 
Oh my, where to start. I started reading young and always had my nose in a book. The Nancy Drew series was a big one for awhile. An older cousin gave me all of hers--they were really fun. The Secret Garden, Harriet the Spy, A Wrinkle in Time are a few that come to mind, but I read everything I could get my hands on. When I was younger, I loved my Giant Book of Fairy Tales.
 
MaryP said:
Oh my, where to start. I started reading young and always had my nose in a book. The Nancy Drew series was a big one for awhile. An older cousin gave me all of hers--they were really fun. The Secret Garden, Harriet the Spy, A Wrinkle in Time are a few that come to mind, but I read everything I could get my hands on. When I was younger, I loved my Giant Book of Fairy Tales.
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Are we the same person? LOL!
 
Late 1950's, aged 8 or 9, Miss Morrison had the boys sewing canvas belts in crossstitch while the girls were at cookery/home economics. While we did that she read us "The Hobbit".
 
My first vivid reading memory was in first grade. We had a substitute teacher that day. She was very old. We were doing a phonics worksheet where we had to color the pictures that had a short /a/ sound. I colored the wagon and she told me I was wrong.

In second grade, I remember being divided up into reading groups by bird names (I was in the cardinals group). We had to take turns reading and answering questions.

In fourth grade, our teacher read aloud Bridge to Terabithia. She started crying at the sad part (if you know, you know). I felt bad for her. :(

In fifth grade, we had Read-a-thon days where we read something all day long - by ourselves, with partners, in a group, teacher read aloud. It was THE BEST thing ever. This was the year that started my obsession with Nancy Drew.

Later on in school, I read all of the Sweet Valley High and Babysitter's Club books. In high school, I read every Christopher Pike and R.L. Stine Fear Street book I could get my hands on. I also loved all fairy tales and VC Andrews books.

In terms of required reading in high school, I loved reading 1984, Brave New World, The Hero and the Crown, The Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird, Night, Flowers for Algernon and Shakespeare. I did not like The Hound of the Baskervilles, Metamorphosis, The Razor's Edge, The Time Machine... I'm sure I'll think of more.
 
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Mycroft said:
Yes

Is it still around?
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Yes. I'm not sure I've ever heard someone say their love of reading came from SRA reading passages.
 
Josie said:
Elementary, junior high/middle school, high school, college..... what are your favorite memories around reading during those years? Anything in particular make a lasting impression on you?
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The elementary school I attended when we lived in Nebraska had 3 classrooms. K-2 in one, 3-4 in another and 5-6 in the third. There was a room outside of the classrooms that housed the library. Probably 4 bookshelves filled with books and I went through a good percentage of them. Tom Swift, Hardy Boys and anything else I could get my hands on. It was a humble little library, but still makes me smile remembering how excited I’d get while hunting for a new book to read.
 
Book fairs --- I never had any money and was always so jealous of the kids who got the cool stuff. Same with ordering books from the Scholastic flyer.
 
Josie said:
Yes. I'm not sure I've ever heard someone say their love of reading came from SRA reading passages.
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It wasn't that. It was the focus on comprehension.
 
Josie said:
I know. What books did you enjoy reading?
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Oh. Well, I remember the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew series. The Boy Scouts had a magazine that had stories in it. But around Jr. High I got into SF and some fantasy. Heinlein, Clarke, Asimov. The Dragon Riders of Pern series. Bradbury. I can't even remember them all.

Oh...the Riverworld series from Jose Farmer was a good one. Harlan Ellison. Ursula K. LeGuinn. The list goes one.

I've been reading that kind of stuff all my life.
 
Growing up reading and music were my escapes. I read everything...a lot of history books (around 9, I got my hands on the same history text book that I read in my AP History class in high school)...a lot of books on the mafia and crime...I read Helter Skelter several times. I lived in a house with a bunch of sailors so I actually did read the Playboys and Penthouses for the articles...there were stacks of porn everywhere. I remember reading the Hobbit and the LOTR several times...but couldnt get past even a few chapters of The Simarillion.

My favorite book from early childhood was "The Cay". Probably read that 100 times. I read all the Hardy Boys books and I also remember reading all the Classic Comic Series.
 
Josie said:
Yes. I'm not sure I've ever heard someone say their love of reading came from SRA reading passages.
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I used it with remedial readers at Job Corps, and it really did the trick. My students all improved their reading scores in my class, but I did nothing except show them how the program worked and where to start. Gave them a relaxed, quiet room and that was about it.
 
Josie said:
Elementary, junior high/middle school, high school, college..... what are your favorite memories around reading during those years? Anything in particular make a lasting impression on you?
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Once or twice a year in elementary school they handed out little four-page brochures with children's titles available in paperback for very little change. It's how I read 'the Bobbsey Twins', and I remember my confusion when the maid and groundskeeper were described as 'coloured'. I had no experience with anyone who wasn't as white as my family and I pictured them rainbow-striped.
Other than that, I remember my parents getting a set of the World Book Encyclopedia and I'd grab a volume at random and spend the afternoon browsing through it.
 
Grand Mal said:
Other than that, I remember my parents getting a set of the World Book Encyclopedia and I'd grab a volume at random and spend the afternoon browsing through it.
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I used to do that too.
 
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