Reading Changed My Life - Townsend Press

Reading Changed My Life! Three True StoriesDaisy’s job as a school custodian gave her achance for more reading practice. At night, cleaningthe elementary classrooms, she found shelves ofeasy-to-read books. There was no one around tolaugh at her, so she took the opportunity. Shebegan by picking up a cartoon book, Marmaduke,which told the adventures of a giant Great Dane.The cartoons were funny and the captions wereshort and not too difficult. On her nightly breaks,Daisy would sit in the empty classroom and readMarmaduke. “I read the whole thing through,without any help,” she recalls proudly.As reading became slightly easier for her, Daisyfound a type of book that excited her—science fiction.“Not the gory stuff about aliens eating people!”she says. “But books from the Star Trekseries—I really liked them.”Clearly, Daisy had come a long way. But herprogress was slow, and there were still many wordsthat she did not understand. And personally, Daisy44