Travis Dyer’s Literacy Timeline

  • Learning To Read

    Learning To Read

    When I was young I had certain difficulties trying to read. Then my mother suggested looking at the world around you. She pointed out there were multiple things to read from road signs to even restaurant names. I did this for years until I could finally read entering Kindergarten.
  • Reading My First Actual Book

    Reading My First Actual Book

    My first book that I learned to read was a book that most kids were required to read at the time during 1st Grade. The book was called “Green Eggs and Ham” by Dr. Seuss
  • Having My First Chalkboard

    Having My First Chalkboard

    When I was little around the time I entered 2nd Grade, my parents used a paint that gave me a chalkboard in my room. I would use it all the time to put notes down from my books and all my reading assignments.
  • Having My First Book Over 500 Pages

    Having My First Book Over 500 Pages

    When I was little my grandmother gave me this book I had never heard of. It was called Harry Potter. I loved this book so much because while being such a long book it also had pictures in it. This was around 4th grade
  • Reading The Percy Jackson Series

    Reading The Percy Jackson Series

    Reading this serious got me out of a lot of troubled times. When I would read this book I felt like I was carried away to another world inside the book. This was 6th grade
  • Meeting My Titi

    Meeting My Titi

    My Titi was an amazing persons when it came to her knowledge with books. She had so many and always gave me the best recommendations when it came to books. She introduced me to the author James Patterson.
  • Starting out writing essays in ICEE format

    Starting out writing essays in ICEE format

    When I was in around 7th-8th grade in middle school the concept of writing essays was brought into question. When they introduced essays they also introduced a format called ICEE as a way to write essays.
  • Entering High School and Getting Rid Of The ICEE System

    Entering High School and Getting Rid Of The ICEE System

    Once entering High School my freshman teacher Ms.A at the time taught us at the time that ICEE was not a format of writing essays that you would no longer need as a writer. It was different and we were taught MLA format which is the standard for High Schools.