In life, you come across a lot of people that play a role in your academics. Mothers, fathers, aunties, uncles, teachers, etc. Your parents as well as mine introduced you to the alphabet when you were a newborn. Using YouTube videos, alphabet mats, or even children’s cartoons. I would consider that the first stepping block to learning how to read or write. As a child, I grew up watching a lot of shows that introduced me to the alphabet, numbers, shapes, colors, and sentences. Over time you get familiar with simple sentences by repeatedly watching these shows. I’ve always been a visual learner. So watching my teacher Ms.Gittens write on the dry erase board was a solid factor in my childhood. As she wrote on the board, she would sound out the word super slow for everybody in the class. Another person that played a part in me learning how to define words is my aunt Tania. Tania is the first person in my family that helped me define words. Before her, I never knew how to use the dictionary. I always found the easy way out and googled what words meant. Thankfully she did not allow that to happen. She handed me a dictionary and explained every step in full detail. She gave me random words to find on my own to ensure that I understood. Lastly, there was my father. Even though this has nothing to do with English, my father taught me mathematics. He bought me dry erase boards, markers, graphs, and charts. Anything that could possibly help me, he bought, He would pick me up from school and devote time to my math assignments, He would pick my brain to make sure I am thinking logically. He would make me explain to him and show him how I reached my answer and correct me after if I was wrong. Special thanks to everybody involved.