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My earliest reading memory was reading with my parents, "The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog!" by Mo Willems. My dad told me that I would ask to read this book every day - multiple times. To this day, my family still quotes from the book, "Mmm, needs mustard!"

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I still say this quote to this day and it's an inside joke with my family.

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My mom told me that this was one of my favorite books that I would want to read before bed.

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The first time I starting reading on my own was with Dr. Seuss. "Oh, the Places You'll Go!" by Dr. Seuss was one of my favorites. One day, I was reading for so long in my room that my brother starting looking for me. Other books I loved were "Green Eggs and Ham" and "One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish." After learning to read more independent with these books, it sprouted my thirst for reading!

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I loved the series Dork Diaries. This was my shift to bigger novels.

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Harry Potter: the most impact on fantasy reading 

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Harry Potter: the most impact on fantasy reading 

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The HP series gave me a adoration for fantasy when I was in elementary school. These books also gave me a love for the HP fandom in general along with the movies.

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I adored the I Survived books. I enjoyed the thriller and the suspense. This is one of my favorites in middle school

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This was one of the quickest books I've ever read since it is a novel with mostly pictures. I loved how the structure of this book was

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"Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck was one of the key novels I remember reading in middle school. It was one of the classics we read and my class read a lot in depth.

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"The Great Gatsby" is one of my favorite classics ever. This book was a shift in my reading journey because of how much my 10th grade class read inbetween the lines. Being in English Honors that year transformed my understanding and importance of each line in the book. I remember rambling to my Dad on and on about what we talked about in class that day and how much I loved being involved in class discussions. I picked up on so much more in reading because of this book and especially that class. Without this book, I would not be the in-depth reader I am today.

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My biggest challenge regarding reading: Beloved by Toni Morrison

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My biggest challenge regarding reading: Beloved by Toni Morrison

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I read this book in the summer before my junior year and during that school year. My biggest challenge was reading beneath the surface more then usual and forming multiple theories with the meaning. This was one of the most complex books I've ever read. It was a lot to unpack, and I loved how much there was for interpretation. I enjoyed reading in between the lines of this book. The 2nd read of this book gave me a much greater perspective of how extravagant the writing is.

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My favorite thing about reading: romance

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My favorite thing about reading: romance

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Most of my most cherished books are a romance novel. This book began my love for the genre, and it was intensified with "The Song of Achilles". Also the book "They Both Die at the End" ended with romance and that book started my independent reading journey my junior year.

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This book kick-started my love for Greek mythology and with reading on my own. My junior year of high school is when I started to read more independently, and this book is hands down one of my favorites. I was so amazed by how beautiful the writing was in this novel, and it provided me a liking of romance.

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This is one of my favorites. I have this picture on my phone.

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I actually took this picture prior to this assignment. I loved it so much, I had to save it.

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Link - How I got into reading my junior year

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Link - How I got into reading my junior year

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"If you get in the daily habit of reading and responding to sophisticated non-fiction, you won't just boost your SAT score—you'll get to learn a lot, too." Reading for prep of the SAT actually kick-started my independent reading journey. It started as an assignment but then it became a habit. In a weird way, prepping for the SAT added a new hobby - reading :)

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The SAT Writing & Language and Reading tests are designed to reward readers. By taking classes at Elite, you'll zero in on specific grammatical rules and critical reading strategies, both essential tools for improving your SAT scores with time. But when it comes to breaking into the 700+ range for these sections, there really is no substitute for reading every day. As I've written in a previous blog post, Good at Math? Then You Should Ace the SAT Language Sections, a thorough knowledge of rules and test strategies is essential. But no knowledge is like the knowledge obtained by daily habit.

Most students do, of course, read quite a bit. When you're not reading for school, chances are you're reading your phone: text messages, Facebook statuses, Instagram captions and comments. Students today read just as much as, if not more than, their parents did when they were teenagers.
But not all writing is going to help you on the SAT. In fact, most writing will actively hurt your SAT score.
Why's that?

Our everyday spoken and written interactions perform subtle acts of grammar and syntax, usually without our awareness. Most of what we speak and write is ungrammatical, a fact that makes learning "correct" SAT grammar and syntax difficult work. Most of us use English in "incorrect" ways every day, and rarely do we speak with the complexity or nuance that you will find in the SAT Reading test.

To master the formal writing tested on the SAT and assigned in college courses, students need to actively engage formal, sophisticated non-fiction on a daily basis. To this end, I would echo the advice of Meg Campbell, Executive Director of Codman Academy. In 2011, she shared her "Secret to Raising SAT Scores": Read The New Yorker magazine every week.

The New Yorker is an excellent source for a wide range of articles on politics and culture. The magazine will present a challenge, but a necessary one for those serious about not only raising their SAT scores but obtaining the critical reading skills needed to succeed in college and beyond.

I would add to this suggestion one more: read Scientific American, too. Many SAT passages deal with science and technology, issues that can feel very foreign to students accustomed to reading, say, nineteenth-century British literature. I recommend students alternate between these two publications-one New Yorker article Monday, one Scientific American article Tuesday, and so on.
Reading, though, is only half the equation.
To quote a UC Berkeley English professor: "How do you know when you've really read something?"

Anyone can pass their eyes over a page. But what does it really mean to "read" something? Reading is not a passive activity: it requires active engagement with the text. Active reading entails writing notes in the margins or in a separate document. It requires that we look up definitions of words that we don't understand. And it means asking questions and seeking answers as we engage with a text.
Reading requires that we respond to the text and that we hold ourselves accountable for what we read.
And so, my suggestion to students-who, I recognize, already have quite a bit of work on their plate-is to both read every day and briefly summarize what they've read.

Download a free note-taking app (such as Evernote) and keep a folder filled with notecards, each devoted to a single article. In 100-200 words, explain the main idea and key details of each article that you read. This process mirrors the process of taking the SAT, which gives you a passage and asks you to respond by answering questions about that passage.

In sum:
1. Read an article from The New Yorker or Scientific American every day. (I recommend alternating between the two.) 2. Using Evernote or a similar note-taking app, briefly summarize (100-200 words) each article you read. While reading, take notes, look up unfamiliar words, and ask yourself questions about the main ideas and big issues raised in each article.
Remember the old Latin proverb, Repetitio mater studiorum est: Repetition is the mother of all learning.

If you get in the daily habit of reading and responding to sophisticated non-fiction, you won't just boost your SAT score-you'll get to learn a lot, too.

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One Habit That Will Help You Raise Your SAT Reading & Writing Scores - Elite Educational Institute

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The SAT Writing & Language and Reading tests are designed to reward readers. By taking classes at Elite, you'll zero in on specific grammatical rules and critical reading strategies, both essential tools for improving your SAT scores with time. But when it comes to breaking into the 700+ ran

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My father is my biggest reading mentor. He always provides me great suggestions, and he is an avid reader himself. He owned the book "The Song of Achilles" and kick started my love for reading. I started to read a lot more independently, and I started with easy reads such as "They Both Die at the End", but TSOA was the book that gave me the love for reading at my reading level. After TSOA, I read some more books but then I started "Circe" also by Madeline Miller. Thanks to my dad, he gave me an interest in Greek mythology. He himself is a big geek on Greek and Norse mythology and knows a lot on both topics. My dad is also a really fast reader and we love to talk to each other about the books we both finished reading.

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My favorite thing about reading is getting lost in the book and seeing the story play out in my mind. I don't realize it at the time, but I catch myself visualizing the scenes in my head similar to a movie. Another one of my favorite things is anticipating the next lines of an intense scene. I can get so into a book and I love reading the emotions the characters are experiencing such as passion, love, fear, or power.

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I want to read much more my senior year and continue with discovering wonderful books. Another goal is to finish book I start. I did not like TOSA in the very beginning and it ended up being my favorite book in the end. I have a list of books I want to read as well.

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