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1.Gates tutor center
2.bigbang theory show
3.Rick and Morty
4. star war series
5.church
6.rainbow 6
7.UCD
8. my sister.
9. The Weekend
10.Justin Bieber
11.economics magazine
12. BHS (beckman high school)
13. social media.
14.netflix

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1. Huntington Library and Gardens (in Pasadena, CA)
2. Archdiocese of Los Angeles (the Catholic Church of Los Angeles)
3. Girl's State
4. Homeboy Industries (Boyle Heights, CA)
5. The 1984 Olympics (held in Los Angeles)
6. My mother (with me at the Huntington Library below!)
7. My sister (we played school)
8. Learning video games  (Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego? & Oregon Trail)
10. Public library (summer reading program)
11. S.E. Hinton
12. Weekly piano lessons with Mrs. Crider
13. Dr. Williams (favorite undergraduate professor)

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1. My brother's Godfather, Lambros (told us stories & sang traditional Greek songs)

2. Playing Scrabble as a kid

3. Being translator for my immigrant parents, brother (before he learned English), and grandmother

4. basketball (coach gave us notebooks to learn plays)

5. Practicing my French when we would visit family in Montreal

6. Greek School (church)

7. Greek Mythology (giant book I read over and over)

8. Dr. Paul Goldstene (college)

9. Human Services 45 (an elective course where we tutored lementary school kids in reading)

10. Used to play 'school' with my neighbor, who was 1 year older than me. I was the student and she was the teacher (learned years later I was doing her homework)

11. Sesame Street & The Electric Company on Saturday mornings

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My grandfather's almanac

Full House (Thing before Fuller House)

Hollywood movie series on Friday nights (in Japan)

Essay writing contests (many Japanese school children participated in these as part of school curricula)

Friends from home

UCSB

My child's Spanish-English bilingual school

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-2 Grandmothers (pictured below at my college graduation) and their full journals and bookshelves
-being the only child meant being included in conversations as a peer, not a child
-community conversations
-Judy Blume
-Dr. Betsy Watson
-Jody Woodbury (HS English teacher) and Carl Woodbury (HS Gov't teacher)
-Thomas, my grandmother's Siamese cat (aka my best student)
-Reading Rainbow
-Sweet Valley High

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Teachers
Eye exams
Older sister
First grade reading circles

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Positive

1. Mom--both as mom and as middle school English teacher

2. Mormon Church

3. Sesame Street/Electric Ave

4. International Children's Chorus

5. Public Libraries

6. Judy Bloom (YA author)

7. Jack Weyland (YA author)

8. Anya Seton/Chaucer (authors)

9. Mr. Peletier--high school teacher

10. General Hospital (1980s)

11. Uncle Ray--surfing PhD

12. Prof. Alison Warriner

13. Prof. Paige DeBois

14. Amazon/Kindle

Negative

1. Mr. Robertson--5th grade teacher

2. Mrs. Pickens--11th grade English teacher

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1. My 11th and 12th grade English  who was really good
2. My older sister
3. My Mother
4. J. K. Rowling
5. J. R. R. Tolkien
6. Almost all of my friends
7. Pokémon
8. Other video games
9. Reading manga

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1. My older sisters
2. Going to church
3. My parents
4. Time Magazine
5. Visiting Libraries when I was younger
6. Middle school (had huge emphasis on reading)
7. Some video games
8. 11th & 12th grade calculus teacher
9. Movie/show subtitles
10. Technology becoming a bigger part of society has definitely had an impact on my ability to read.

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1. My father(told me a lot of truth in my life, my first teacher and the most important teacher in my life, the most influential people on my future career choosing, the people who most care about my education in my family )

2. My english teacher in my high school Mrs. Tian( taught me english learning and historical literature, my first professional english writing teacher.)

3. Pokemon

4. Khaled Hosseini

5. Video games (league of legends)

6. Japanese cartoon

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1. my mom (always encouraging me to read)

2. my friends (i'm always interested in what they're reading)

3. local libraries (easily accessible and have a great selection of books)

4. fandoms (got me into reading and writing communities online)

5. social media (i see a lot of reading and writing related posts on my feed)

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POSITIVE
1. My Father (Always pushed me to read and write about it after/ tell him)
2. Book Fairs (Easy access to books we were interested in)
3. My mother (gave me money for books)
4. Animals (Got me interested in learning more about them)
5. Dr. Cataldo- 12th grade English teacher
6. Ms.Butchko-9th grade English teacher
7. Chemistry (I was interested in learning about the elements)
8. Language barrier (I had to translate a lot of documents and mail to my parents)
9. Ms.Wayment (Kindergarden Teacher)
NEGATIVE
1. Friends (Reading is uncool and boring)

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Older sister + her great self of books
Eye doctors
Comics
Anime/Manga
Church
My bedside table
A troubled society
YouTube
Wikipedia
The challenge of my 11th grade chemistry class
Vast reaches of the internet
Dad's old college books for technical reading
The C Programming Language
Authoritarian English teachers
J. K. Rowling
Stephen King
FIRST Robotics

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- Parents
- English teachers
- Book fair/ book orders
- Library
- Friends
- Technology
- Social media
- Music
- Netflix/Youtube (reading subtitles/ captions)

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- 7th grade teacher (introduced me to books that turned out to be interesting)
- 8th Grade teacher (encouraged students to read a lot and I grew in reading because of her)
- Anime (I watch them in Japanese so I have to read subtitles at a remotely fast pace to understand what they are saying)
- Social media (A lot of posts contain comments, captions, etc. and it is interesting to read about)
- My mom (She took me to the library and I was able to read books in general because of her)
- Music (Reading lyrics and understanding the message behind them)

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- My mom
- My 7th grade English teacher
- My 11th grade english teach
- My elementary librarian
-  12 grade english teacher
-  6th grade teacher
-  4th grade teacher
- My sister
-  Youtube
-  Video games
- Music
- My friends
- Rick Riordan

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-Parents
-School
-Bilingual
-Friends
-Classmates
-Teachers (All Had Impacts)
-YouTube
-Videogames
-Spanish Classes
-J.K. Rowling
-Music
-Book Fair
-Family (Mom's Side)
-Encinitas Public Library
-Internet
-Instagram
-Eye Exams
-Subtitles
-Dr. Seuss
-Back of Cereal Boxes

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- My Mom ( bought me lots of books to read when I was young)
- My high school English teachers
- My friends
-  TV Shows
-  Music
- Songs
- High school science teachers ( encouraged us to write researches)
- The Hunger Games
- Biology related Books
- Social Media
- School Library and the library near my home
- Art
-  School Writing competitions
- Book Fair Event ( buying different kinds of books).

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Some of the Literacy sponsors  I have had are:
1) my parents and grandmother
2) my tutor
3) my friends
4) Tv shows like Go-Diego-Go and Youtube
5) the school librarian
6) being head of multiple committees like  sports-day, student exchange and many more
7) being one of the CEO's of the Community Service Program
8) Weekly life lessons sessions with our principle
9) Games like Word bingo, scrabble
10) being a part of clubs like : The Greek god club  and many more
11) my tutors

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-Ms. Froloff - High school English/Journalism teacher
-Camp
-Facebook news articles
-Netflix
-My reading obsession as a kid
-Playing Scrabble with my aunt
-Music
-Childhood trauma
-Being read to from my elementary school librarian
-Cartoons
-Working on the school newspaper in high school
-My grandparents
-My parents
-My boyfriends family

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- Older sister
- My mother
- Music
- Netflix
- Anime
- Internet
- Instagram
- Newspapers
- Dragon Ball Manga
- Libraries
- Friends
- Twitter
- Online Video Games

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- mom
- church
- books
- newspapers
- TV shows
- teachers
- music
- keeping my own writing journal
- translating
- social media

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1) my grandma would always tell us about the traditional stories in the Mexican culture.
2) Going to church through out my whole childhood (Seventh Day Adventist)
3) playing tag as a kid
4) Always having to translate documents for my parents (growing up with immigrant parents)
5) going to classes at church to go over the Bible and
readings
6) my tutor
7) my pastor
8) watching full house and cartoons as a kid
9) soccer YouTube videos
10) UC DAVIS
11) Spider-Man
12) Goosebumps
13) Malcolm in the middle

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-library books
-Ms.Hart my ap English teacher
-Instagram
-My friends
-Manga
-Netflix
-Movies
-Webtoons
-Online books
-School LIbrarian
-My ex
-Subtitles
-Anime
-Book Fair
-Shampoo Bottles

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. Mom
.7th grade teacher
.9th grade teacher
.older cousin who was attending college when I was young
. friends
Having to translate forms or document for my parents
. ap spanish class
.Dr.Seuss books
.music
. reading poems and riddles as a kid
.PBS kids
.online books
. practicing cursive for a writing  class
. public library
.scrabble
.speaking 2 languages
. books fairs
.newspapers
. writing lyrics to songs so I can sing them
. Subtitles on shows
.Stephen King

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Dad.                                  Newspaper                         Instragam                         Teachers                              Movies                                     Library                                             My grandparents                   Video games                                 My friends who always encouraged me to read             Google                             Wikipedia                 

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Dad.                                  Newspaper                         Instragam                         Teachers                              Movies                                     Library                                             My grandparents                   Video games                                 My friends who always encouraged me to read             Google                             Wikipedia                 

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- Parents and Grandma
- TV Shows and Movies
- Internet/Social Media
- News
- Christian School/the Bible
- Elementary School Reading Circles
- My friends
- Libraries
- News Articles

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.my 7th grade teacher
.my mom
.counselor
.AVID teacher
.movies
.news
.library
.after school program
.Tutor
.internet

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1. My grandmother had worked at schools and had a degree in child development and knew how important it was for me to understand and know my high frequency words, my ABC’s,  and she set up my fondation for reading and writing.

2. While is was in fifth grade i struggled a lot with reading comprehension and there was this program at my elementary school that took us out of class for around 45 mins a day to read and do other activities to help us read better

3. During fifth grad while I was struggling to read I also was struggling with spelling and to help me better spell my dad got me a red webster dictionary and if I didn’t known how to spell a word I would have to look it u in the dictionary

4. When I got to middle school I had to take a test to assess my reading and comprehension level. I had to join a class that gave us assignments and reading prompts with comprehension questions on the computer and after taking the class for a semester and my reading level was above average and I took honors classes after that.

5.   My 6th grade drama teacher brought into a new world of monologues and Shakespeare reading I had never seen before and she really made me think when writing.

6. My 8th grade honors english and english  teacher really gave me new texts and perspectives of audiences.

7. My ninth grade honors english teacher Mrs. Fordham-Jackson really pushed her honors students when it came to reading, writing and investigating the context of a book and the purpose of certain aspects of an author's writing.

8. I had a negative experience with my honorsEnglish teacher because  we read a lot of Shakespeare which was difficult to understand along with assignments that were confusing for me and she kind of discouraged me from wanting to read older writings.

9.  My AP english language and composition really was a helpful person because she made me think was beyond the words on the paper of a novel , but how those words can be metaphors for different things happening in a  specific era or in a person’s life

10. Mrs. Cooper, my Ap environmental science teacher, was a great teacher that really helped my scientific writing go beyond putting fluff around your answer. I learned to  put the answer  that you think is correct for the question and don't add fluff.

11. My music teacher and my mental journey really had me tap in to my poetry skills and really had me expand my language beyond just “sad” and happy”

12. the Junie. b jones series

13. Dork diaries

14. commentary you tubers

15. I watched sesame street, and dora a lot as a child

16. My french class I took between ninth and eleventh grade.

17. Summer cancer research internship

18. Netflix

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Mom
Dad
Grandma
Teachers (7th, 8th, 12th)
Counselor
Books
Movies
AP Lang
Social media
Barnes and Noble
Holocaust
World War Two
Greek Mythology

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1). My Grandfather and Grandfather

2). My Father and Mother

3). Late-night TV shows

4). News

5). Reading Apps

6). Past Teacher and Coaches

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1.Friends (We all loved reading and would force each other to read books)
2. Parents (My parents would buy me books or even bring me free books)
(They also bought me all the school materials I would need and more)
3.Public Libraries (Would read books from here because some books were too expensive for me to buy
4.Myself ( I have motivated myself)
5. Sister (She would help me with all my struggles )

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1. my mother
2. my father
3. books i read during elementary
4. Public libraries
5. Cartoons
6. Webtoons, anime and mangas
7. high school experiences
8. internet/ social media
9. Friends
10. Greek Mythology

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1. my mother
2. my father
3. my grandmother, a primary school literacy teacher
4. my grandfather, a middle school literacy teacher
5. my pen-friend

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1. Silent reading time during elementary

2. Summer assignments that included reading books in high school

3. Ms. Talbott (sophomore english honors teacher)

4. Ms. Mark (junior english honors teacher)

5. Collecting “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” in fourth grade

6. Reading Wattpad in middle school

7. Translating for my mother and writing messages for her

8. A book full of short stories when I was around 5

9. Ms. Mlad ( AP US GOV)

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1. One Hundred Thousand Whys (encyclopedia)
2. my parents
3. Science Documentary
4. Book corner

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1.Mother
2. Grandmother
3. My grade 5 English teacher who was always very supportive
4. Goosebumps series
5. Friendly competition with friends
6. Brother

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1. My mom
2. My grandfather
3. My 11th & 12th grade english teacher
4. Matilda
5. Middle school experiences
6. My home room high school teacher

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1. Parents
2. Social media
3. English teachers
4. Video games
5. Libraries
6. Anime
7. Fiends

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1. My mother ( told me a lot of story)                                                  2. My father ( good friend also)     3. High school                                   4. Mrs. A (primary school teacher, who teach me English)                    5. Google                                           6. Friends & classmate                   7. Movies            

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1. My mother ( told me a lot of story)                                                  2. My father ( good friend also)     3. High school                                   4. Mrs. A (primary school teacher, who teach me English)                    5. Google                                           6. Friends & classmate                   7. Movies            

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My mom, as she always told me to focus reading the spanish version of stories and textbooks to be a great bilingual.
My youngest older brother, as he would take me to the various libraries across L.A. from the downtown library to his own college library.
My younger brother, as we would compete between each other to find the most captivating book series we could read.
My AP-ELAC teacher Mr. Rowe, as he would encourage me to build confidence in overcoming my fear in doing terrible in any class english writing related. 
LA Times, often my mother would bring newspapers to me to get me off the TV and later got myself to read and listen to the news more often. 
Animal behavior, it is always often I will find a specific species to do my research on and therefore read more about.
My Catholic Church, as I was often taught by the bible morally and religiously which also helped my spanish and to become a more empathetic person.
UCLA, often I would study in a college preparedness program which also led me to admire others going to college.
Cooking lessons often taught by the eldest of my brothers and my own mother; which also led me to read a lot of cooking recipes/books.

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1. One Hundred Thousand Whys (encyclopedia)
2. my parents
3. Science Documentary
4. Book corner

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Boy Scouts of America

Parents

English teachers

Marvel movie franchise

Star Wars movie franchise

Harry Potter movie franchise

Scholastic Book fair

S.S.R.

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1. Video games
2. kindle
3. high school English teacher
4. Animation
5. History documentaries
5. social media

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1. Mom - Arguably the person who's responsible for single-handedly giving me the opportunity to live a normal life using Reading as a tool, Reading countless novels as a child gave me the ability to speak properly.
2. Dad -- Wasn't as dedicated to reading as my Mom, but he encouraged me to remain knowledgeable in Political Affairs, which compelled me to read news articles.
3. Wikipedia Articles -- I'm a bit of a nerd in this regard, googling anything that pops in my head at any given moment, from sewer pipes to "Another One Bites The Dust" by Queen.
4. 12th grade AP Literature Teacher -- Taught me how to absorb critical information from lengthy paragraphs within a limited amount of time.
5. Harry Potter Novels -- These books I read for fun, enhanced my vocabulary to an indefinite fault.

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1. Parents

2. Netflix

3. Video Games

4. Live action shows

5. Blockbuster movies

6. Animes

7. Sports

8. Working out

9. Problem solving

10. Superhero

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1. My parents.
2. My sister
3. High school has taught me how to freely write as a beginner while still being cohesive.
4. School's Library.
5. Local Library.
6. Childhood Cartoons have influenced me and motivated me to write and read.
7. Video games make me read a lot. Whether it be technical information or news about upcoming stuff.
8. My father's personal library has different genres of books to choose from.
9. My room's library.
10. Twitter and Reddit.
11. The almighty Internet!

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1.library books

2.Instagram

3.My friends

4.Netflix

5.English Movies

6.English corner

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My sister who would read and be organize all the time to be in control of what she is doing with no stress
my mom who would enjoy taking spanish classes and write down notes every single time she had class
Documentaries that would be interesting allowing me to do background research
My friends who would keep up with all their work in school
Libraries in which would introduce me to many sources sand books to utilize at my convenience

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1. My older brothers(they helped me discover new books as a child and advance my reading level)
2. A family friend(She made reading and writing fun. She was also my primary support for learning English before entering grade school)
3. PBS kids(I would always watch shows like Arthur, Word Girl, Word World, Sesame Street, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, and much more that also made learning fun)
4. Public Library(it opened up my access to more books and there were no limits like school libraries)
5. Anime(I have learned a lot about the Japanese culture and it has encouraged me to learn a new language and visit Japan)
6. Church(not a positive one since there was a restrictive and regulative aspect when it came to learning about the religion)
7. Translating(I developed my literacy skills in both English and Spanish)

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Parent
books
computer
social media
art
novels
Anime
textbook
Twitter
Friends

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1. My parents
2. My highschool english teacher
3. Instagram
4. Youtbe
5. Freinds and family
6. Video games
7. Music

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Positive:
1. My parents
2. My step-dad
3. Rick Riordan (YA author)
4. 9-12th grade English teachers
5. Manga
6. Fanfiction
7. Libraries!! (specifically the one here in Davis)
8. UCD
9. Plays
10. Warriors Cats series
11. Inkheart series

Negative:
1. Politics
2. Big news companies
3. Social media
4. Terrible, terrible fanfiction
5. 7-8th grade English classes

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1) My mother, she would always tell me her stories about her as a kid

2) My Speech and Debate Coach, he would tell us on ways we can succeed academically and in terms of a career

3) Anime/Manga, watched and read from when I was really young, taught me a lot of life lessons

4) Brother, always optimistic and taught me a lot about life

5) Ms. Izumikawa (Freshman English Teacher), taught me how to analyze texts and read efficiently

6) Social Media, let me connect with people and become friends

7) The News, helped me keep up with events and how the world is doing

8) Video Games

9) Light Novels

10) Classmates

11) Friends

12) Boys and Girls Club, Junior Staff/Tutor

13) Alhambra Church

14) Translation for my parents and business

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1. School (Teachers had their alma mater flag inn their classroom to encourage us to academic weapons essentially)
2. My mom ( Encouraged me to read a lot)
3. The ghetto ( Not from the best area so it encouraged me to go for a higher education)
4. TV shows
5. Anime
6. The Backyardigans
7. Comic Books
8. AR points which were points given after reading a book and taking a quiz. (If we had over 1,000 points we could go to Boomers)
9. Religion ( Read verses and the bible)
10. Social Media

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1. YouTubers
2. Bloggers
3. Teachers from my middles school
4. Internet friends
5. Music
6. Movies

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1. My grandmother who always encouraged me to read
2. YouTube (random videos I watch, the comment section)
3. Novels I'd pick up as a kid and read for fun
4. Internet friends/social media
5. The people in my high school who'd tease me for being "so scholarly"
6. My English teacher in senior year who didn't care about anything
7. Video games
8. Music lyrics
9. Trying to learn new languages
10. Always having captions on when I watch something

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-MY MOM
-Tiktok book recommendations
-Belle from beauty and the beast
-Rory Gilmore from the Gilmore girls
-Mr.Skeahan, my all time favorite english teacher
-My grandmother
-Word games like scrabble and crosswords
-MUSIC
-Stevie Nicks
-Frank Ocean
-Greek Mythology
-My 3rd grade teacher's lil in class library
-Theory of knowledge class
-S.E Hinton
-A house on Mango Street
-UC Davis
-Public Library
-San Francisco
-Traveling
-The Hunger Games
-Percy jackson

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1. my parents( let me know that writing can be fun and not just about asssignments )
2. the boy that i secretly liked for years ( I kept a diary for him for years which improved my writing skill)
3. Bruno Mars( I was so  obsessed with his songs that i tried to write some similar lyrics)
4. childhood experience
5.UWP 7 class ( keep practicing writing skill )
6. The bookstore near my home when I was a kid ( usually sneaked out and went there to read books during dinner time)
7. My TOEFL tutor during high school( advise my essays and told me how to improve)

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1. My mother. She is the best literacy sponsor to me in my life since she revised all my essays in my childhood. My mom is a very talented writer that her articles gain lots of prizes and publish when she was a student.
2. The Chinese Education Government
3. My Chinese teachers
4. School Newspaper centers
5. Word Game
6. Novels

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My literacy Sponsors
- My parents: they encourage and support me
- my younger brothers: my brother who is 2 years younger than me, we always have conversations about manga and give each other recommendations, and my baby brother makes me read to him
- My friends: we encourage and support each other
- The teachers I have had within my life-span: they have all helped me so much and encouraged me, help me and made sure I never gave up.
-the anime community gives really good manga recommendations

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1. my parents( they bought a lot of books for me to read when I was young)
2. classmates (They often share books with me that they find interesting）
3. advisement on TV ( someone shares interesting books on TV)
4. internet ( search for the most popular book to read)
5. teachers ( create activities that offer opportunities for us to read books and share our thoughts)