Most five year olds are ready to go to “big school,” also known as kindergarten. I had and uneasy feeling about going to school all day since I had been homeschooled in pre-school by my mother. A full seven-hour day of school seemed as if the day would never end. I could not make it through. I was used to doing a couple hours of school work; then I would be able to go outside and play. The concept of writing is mostly learned in elementary school. The complexity of writing increased as the years of English classes pasted. For some people writing comes natural to them, but for some writing is very difficult. I am in the group that is not good writers and it does not come natural. The difficult experience I had with writing is that my speech affected my first step in learning to write, crippled my writing structure and lowered my writing confidence; these speech issue discouraged me from writing. …show more content…
On the first day of school, my teacher made us go around the room and tell our names. I attempted to pronounce my name “Jerret”; however, it did not come out like it was intended. We quickly learned that I had speech problems when pronouncing words with R, T, and W sounds; it effected the pronunciation of my name. I was so embarrassed that I could not even say my name right, my parents tried correcting me, but they could never get me to say my name correct. I began attending speech, this cut down time I spent in a regular class room. As my peers were learning to write, I was still learning to pronounce words correctly. This set me back in terms of my basic writing knowledge. I was trying to still learn the basic sentence structures when my peers were already writing complete paragraphs and short essays. My speech problem at this age started my difficult ability to