My daughter is 7 years old. She reads chapter books. She loves to read. I like to read, too. Actually, I used to go to the bookstore or library when I was in Korea. After I got married, I came to American and had a baby, I didn’t have time to read, so I stopped.
My kids grew. Now they go to school. I have time to do something for me. I wanted to read a book again, so I got some books from the library and read them. But it was hard to read: I’m not good at reading English books. Most books for adults are difficult – they have a lot of words that I don’t know, so I need a dictionary every time. If I skip the word, I don’t understand the story, and it takes a lot of time to read just one page. I felt reading was boring, so I stopped reading again.
One day my daughter said to me when she finished her book, “Mom – this book is really fun. You should read! I want you to read!” I read the book that my daughter recommended: yes, it was fun and easy to read. I could read the whole book in just one day, so I started to read books again. That’s why I am reading my daughter’s books.
Recently, I read The Lemonade War, Mr. Popper’s Penguins and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Now I am reading Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. I hope I can read a novel for adults someday.
Sinai Choi is from South Korea. Her tutor is Melinda Karwon and they have been meeting every Tuesday morning at the Literacy Center since January 2015.
Milford Literacy student, Jacob Lee, proudly holds his U.S. citizenship certificate, which he received on May 15th, 2015. Jacob is self-employed. His tutor is Helen Anastasio.
Jacob's wife, Yoon, a nurse practitioner, at Yale, also received her citizenship and is a former Milford Literacy student. They have two sons.
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