Reading experience

In my freshman and sophomore years of high school, as a non native english speaker, I haven’t read anything in english in my childhood because english wasn’t provided only in private schools. For that reason, I started my high school in private school, the underclassmen readings was not easy especially for non native speaker, just to practice the use of english. We had to read novels, newspaper, journals and magazines in peers to help each others understand the vocabulary to present it in class, although, it was terrifying and funny to speak in english in front of students who speak my own language. In upperclassmen, junior and senior years, reading became more extensive and expanded in meaning. We started to read literature text and academic vocabulary, to prepare us for TOEFL and university studies; plus, reading and writing were accompanied in most quizzes and final test, but there were no particular strategy that was used in reading the texts.