“Schooled Literacy” starts of by stating that it is going to be about getting the perspective from college students about reading and writing. In other words it gets into details about how things as a child verses being in college has an effect on you over the years. Evans wanted to have a better understanding as well as appreciate the experiences that we have all went through. This meaning that while you were a child you were asks to do things from your teachers, they may or may not have always been pleased with what you have demonstrated.  The teachers may have thought more highly of you and have been let down.  Good reading seems to be demonstrated in three ways; story reading, school reading and leisure “popcorn trash” reading. For example, in good reading I feel the student needs to be able to excite to be studying the topic in order to be successful. With this being said, I don’t have an specific ideas to share, I think it has to do with the student itself. Good writing however can be school writing, personal writing and creative/ imaginative writing.

Between the topics of good writing and good reading they may be problematical in ways. I feel that these topics like I stated before depend on the student at hand. A student may find it a thousands of times easier to write an essay on any of the three, rather than to read an article on one of the three above. I feel in my own perspective writing an essay, I can be much more effective, as to reading one. I feel reading takes a different mind to understand and grasp what is being said. Many times I have to reread and reread over and over again because I am not understanding the message being sent. Now in writing, you need to rewrite and rewrite making the piece perfect but deep down you are familiar about what you are writing about just unsure of how to let it all out onto the paper.  In Evans article, it is stated that school can effect a child’s reading and writing. I am agreeing with this because as stating in the article above it says that a student once was put down because of his handwriting. In my opinion, that must take a huge tool on the child’s confidence making him timid on writing any articles or any tasks the teacher assigns. My experience with schooled literacy is absolutely relatable. Growing up I was the child that held the pen or pencil “weird” as the teachers and my classmates would say. I would make a fist as though I was going to punch something and then hold the pencil and write. Now looking back at this as being an adult I see that it was pretty strange, and that if I was someone who saw it I would probably have laughed. However, as in Evans article I can relate. By the way my teachers approached the situation made me feel like I had a problem, that I was awkward or different. I am saying this because if they would have approached me in a way of not excluding me and making it such a huge deal I would have never felt so shy to write and do my assignments. However because they singled me out I felt ashamed. I remember coming home from school and my parents would make me write over and over until I did not hold the pencil that way anymore. I eventually got out of that strange habit. In conclusion, from reading this article I strongly agree with the points that were said.