Literacy Memories, Definitions, Implications

I remember sitting in my grandmother's lap with an assortment of colorful books spread before me on the kitchen table. I had the difficult task of selecting which one she would read to me in the afternoons following lunch and preceding my dreaded nap time. I recall the melodic sounds of her voice as her intonations matched the characters and adventures tak ing place in the story. Her roar or cackle would put me a place and time where my imagination was everything. In these intimate moments, my love of literacy blossomed. Fast-forward to my career as a public school high school English teacher. I read the likes of Oliver Twist with a passionate, albeit sub-par British accent, proclaimed the beauty of iambic pentameter during Shakespeare units, and often was cast as all the characters in dramas such as Othello, but I aAlthough my love of literacy and did it all with love and respect the fond memories it evokes help for literacy.