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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 older sister (we played school)
8. Learning video games at my public library you got to play for FREE on the brand new Apple 2E computers donated by a new little-known company called Apple Computers (Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego? & Oregon Trail)
10. Public library (summer reading program where reading got you free pizza points!)
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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Eye exams
Watching older sister record herself reading books
First grade reading circles
Moving to Australia in 6th grade and mispronouncing words when reading aloud in class
Teaching my daughter to read
Friends
My uncle Bob's home library

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Playing the daily wordle on the New York times
- My father (read stories to my brother and I when we were younger)
- Diary Of A Wimpy Kid ( One of my favorite series as a kid)
- Eighty Six ( Light Novel Series)
- Video Games ( Reading Objectives in a game)
- My brother ( I would be interested in books he was reading)
- Boy Scouts

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1. My curiosity for all different types of books when I was younger
2. My father as he encouraged me to get into mystery/detective stories
3. Reading the english subtitles while watching a tv show/movie in a different language
4. Book fairs in elementary school
5. Reading and writing poetry
6. The novel "No Longer Human" by Osamu Dazai
7. Reading manga
8. Watching and analyzing the story and gameplay of indie games—Undertale, Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, etc
9. Listening to lyrics of songs in my playlist
10. Memorizing the introduction to Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" in 9th grade

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1. Art exhibition books
2. My sister
3. Guinness World Record books
4. Taekwondo team (given notebooks/learning korean terms)
5. Contemporary Art Appreciation at Davis (field reports)
6. elementary school plays
7. moon journals
8. karaoke with friends
9. Art statements for work

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Being a translator for immigrant parents and aunts

Teaching my nephew how to read

Dora the explorer

The froggy books at my scholastic book fair

My kindergarten best friend who stuck with me when I only spoke Spanish

My great-uncle who taught me English at home

McDonald's menu

Mrs. Hernandez

The Weeknd

Wordle

Sonoma County library

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- My parents (always tell me to read the Bible and they would buy me books)
- Kumon (they provided books so when I was waiting for my parents, I read)
- anime subtitles
- my best friend (who would summarize a random book she read)
- research papers (I read when I was curious about a topic)
- webtoon (an app that I would spend hours and hours on in high school)

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- My father is my impactful reading sponsor. He always delivered his regret about low literacy. So he won’t have any excuses when I want to buy some books.
- My junior writing teacher. She taught me that use words to recurrence the memory. Great literature is splendid because it both has the gravity of reality and aesthetic perception.
-My favorite sci-fi author, Liu. His works cultivate my interest in sci-fi.
-Leo Tolstoy, the greatest ideologist, tell me why literature is beyond reality.
-some pdf sharing website. So I can read some great books for free.
-new-wave films. I collect many meaningful scripts.
-My high school mandatory reading time. This period is the only time I can immerse myself inside the books.
-My discord philosophy group.
-Žižek's Jokes

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-Books (I read a lot in Elementary School and Middle School, which made my reading a lot better)
-TV shows (Sesame Street, Dora, etc)
-Video games (learn a lot of new words and how phrases can be used)
-My sister (she is older than me by a lot, but she has taught me things that she was learning)
-My Junior Year/Senior Year High School English teacher (I liked the way he taught and it made writing and reading more enjoyable)
-Youtube (You can learn a lot on Youtube, and even if you're not watching educational videos, you can still learn new words of phrases)

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Local youth library (I always go there with my parents and they have a lot of really good programs help children to learn words)

TV shows (Cartoon, movie, cartoon movie, I love Garfield and minions, and I watch SpongeBob today as well)

Shout out to in the night the garden

Games (I'm a simulation game lover, and most of the game was in English (not my native language), so I have to learn what the words actually means)

ESL class in high school

Comic books, science fictions (It was popular in my elementary school)

Scratch and FPC, a programming language that I was forced to learn, but it's useful

Music

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- Cartoons I used to watch: Spongebob, Dora the Explorer, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Word World
- Having to read books in elementary school and taking reading comprehension quizzes on them
- Being in an after school program where we had scheduled reading time
- My friends talking to me about the books they read
- Summer learning programs
- Memorizing things like the pledge of allegiance and the preamble to the constitution (still have it memorized)
- Being a tutor in high school
- The wordle
- All of my english teachers in middle school and high school
- YouTube

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-6th Grade Teacher (he made us read any book and present our summary of it in class every two weeks)
-Mom (read my sisters and I books as a child)
-Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Big Nate, and Mike Lupica Sports books series
-CCD classes (catholic program)
-Videogames (subtitles)
-Children shows (pbs, Disney, Nickelodean)
-Junior year (english teacher and science academy professor)
-Speech therapist (as a child I relearned how to pronounce some words)

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1. My parents (sponsoring my education as a whole)
2. Geronimo Stilton and Percy Jackson were that ones that contributed the most
3. TV shows and their CC translations(I've learnt alot from subtitles) Steven Universe, Animes, Amazing world of Gumball
4. My grade 10 biology teacher who taught me how to write lab reports (made lab reports 10x more enjoyable)
5. Song lyrics
6. My philipino friend who doesn't know how to speak thai, hence encouraged me to speak english with him all the time.
7. Summer program abroad
8. studying abroad in america (broaden my language barrier)

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- Cartoon Network (i.e. Amazing World of Gumball, the Regular Show, Teen Titans)
- Parents
- Grandparents
- Friends
- Movies (i.e. Star Wars, Avengers)
- Video games (i.e. Pokemon, Overwatch, Minecraft)
- Religion (i.e. Christianity)
- YouTube (i.e. Vanoss, Pewdiepie)
- Encyclopedias (i.e. Dinosaurs)
- Language barriers
- Science books
- Prep books
- Music

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- Cartoon shows and movies (When I was little, I enjoyed watching SpongeBob SquarePants, The Penguins of Madagascar, Teletubbies and so on.)
- Magazines (My mom subscribed to magazines and would get a batch almost every half month. When I was a kid, I would pick and read the comics and jokes, but as I learned more and more words, I started reading the articles in those magazines.)
- Books
- Electronic devices like kindle, reading machines that provided me with audios for textbooks and Chinese poems
- My experience as an English teacher for kids in lower grades
- Songs that I listened
- My mother
- My friends

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I would like to take my own glasses as one of the sponsors. The pairs of glasses that I wore for about four years. They have been broken down and changed through the years.

My parents definitely are the literacy sponsors of my childhood’s reading and writing. I would say that they gave me the chance to actually take a good look at myself, if I want to read or not. My terrible relationship with reading has nothing to do with what they provided to me, since they actually gave various types of books to me.

Some of the classmates I encountered were also good examples of reading and writing to me. I truly did learnt a lot from them, their learning strategies and attitude when focusing on writing.

cats can be one of my calm down solution to resolve my focus issue.

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1. Watching PBS kids TV shows growing up
2. Japanese summer school that I attended for 6 years
3. The Hunger Games series
4. My mom who was also my preschool
teacher
5. watching/listening to Spanish tv shows and music
6. wordle
7. Playing sudoku and doing crosswords with my dad
8. Tutoring elementary schoolers in math
9. writing my mom's grocery store lists
10. My 11th grade English teacher

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- My parents
-My sister
- TV shows
-iPad
-Library along with summer reading programs
-Arts and crafts center
-swim practice
-White board at home
-books at home
-horse riding instructor
-neighborhood
-friends
-shopping

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* Children shows ( Disney, nickelodeon, cartoon network, Disney XD, etc)
* My older brother
* A program I was in that helped me with reading and writing in english
* My classmates
* song lyrics
* Teaching my little sister how to read and write
* movies

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-Reading Music during class
-Shannara Chronicles (one of my favorite book series
-crossword puzzles in the newspaper
-Boy Scouts
-reading guides on how to get better at games
-binge-reading the entirety of the adventures of Tintin
-menus at restaurants
-song lyrics
-SAT prep