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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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- Emerald Downs Racetrack
- Dr. Oakley the Yukon Vet (TV Show)
- Ukiah Highschool
- Middle School Spelling Bee
- Plant Shops
- Music Class in elementary school
- Mr. Vilotti (my middle school teacher)
- Spending summers in Tahoe with my grandparents

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- My Grandparents house(have been going there almost every week since I was born)
- Country Music
- Playing football
- Comedy movies
- Lake Tahoe
- Family Vacations
- Ceramics class in high school
- Fishing

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- word hunt by game pigeon
- going to my cousin's house
- magic tree house
- badminton
- summer reading program at public library
- word girl
- teaching my sister English
- friends from school
- battle of the books

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👉My diary, bullet journals ( Reread what I had mentioned across years)
👉Taught my brother science
👉 Grandparents night time stories
👉 Music ( I often listen besides reading and singing to the lyrics)
👉Online discussion forum, chat, posts, ...
👉Genshin impact ( video games with audio, texts)
👉Animal series of National Geographic
👉Piano at home with mom
👉Class yearbook (Members thought, reaction, and comments about each other)
👉Scientific books about anatomy, animals, plants
👉Movies, Kdrama with English/ native language subtitles

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- PBS Kids
- Reading Nonfiction Books As a Child (Mainly Nat Geo)
-Real Life Documentaries about History or Animals
-My Local Speech Program at Elementary
-AR Point System (Entice us with rewards to keep reading)
- 6th Grade Spelling Bee ( Got Second Place)
-Video Games such as RPGs
- Book Reports
-US Government Class
-Academic Decathlon in High School
-Watching Youtube

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-My grandmother who was an English teacher
-My grandfather who would do crosswords in the newspaper
-Being in clubs
-Being talked to as an adult rather than a child
-Being proffesional
-Movies
-My dad
- The Giving Tree

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- Awe of the world
- Nature Documentaries
- Music
- Animals
- Writing Articles
- Bilingual household
- Sesame Street/Mr. Rodgers Neighborhood
- Little Brothers
- Amelia Bedelia books

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-Parents
-Reading tests in elementary school
-Animals section in libraries
-Nature documentaries
-Friends
-Manga
-Video games
-Entomology friends in high school
-reading biosci papers
-English class requirements
-Hiking and collecting insects
-Sports

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-My mom read stories to me every night when I was little
-Watching movies
-Library
-High School English Teacher
-YouTube Channel
-fictions

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- My parents reading to me every night
- Public library summer reading program
- Book fairs
- Listening to my older sisters present their book reports
- Encyclopedia Brown
- Cam Jansen
- Music class in middle school
- Listening to/reading foreign films
- Word games (Scrabble and Boggle)
- Reading with my grandmother
- History and nature documentaries

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- my dad teaching my sister and i words of the day
- my korean grandmother
- the percy jackson & the olympians series
- my local library in elementary school
- vacations abroad
- french music
- spelling bee in elementary school
- youtube
- nytimes crossword and word puzzles

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1. Music Lyrics
2. Playing Basketball
3. TV Shows and movies
4. Books by Mike Lucia
5. Talking to my mom as a child

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1. My childhood's diary
2. Private at home English teacher
3. Watching old American TV Shows with big English captions like Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Buffy the Vampire Slayer
4. YouTube videos
5. English tutor in elementary school
6. Super funny English teacher in middle school
7. book fairs
8. writing online fan fictions

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— My mother (my earliest memory is her reading to me)
— Scholastic book fairs
— Cyberchase
— Watching TV with closed captions
— Liberty's Kids
— Chinese Speech Contests
— Books on Tape
— Science Experiments
— My Chinese/Spanish Immersion Daycare
— Access to books

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1. My mother (She always read to me and told me to follow along. I also always watched her read around the house.)
2. My older brother (He liked to read different book series and I wanted to be cool like him and read big kid books)
3. Helping my older brother with translating and interpreting for our parents who only speak Spanish.
4. Playing Yu Gi Oh cards with my brother (he always won, and I was pretty sure he was cheating because I couldn't read the skills on my cards, so his cards always overpowered mine)
5. Watching anime with subs (the sub always comes out first and I'm not patient enough to wait for the dub version)
6. Competing with other kids to get into the higher reading level book clubs.
7. Word Search competitions (I always wanted to win)
8. The Vampire Academy series, Vampire Kisses series, The Full Moon series, etc. (my obsession with reading supernatural books after watching Twilight)
9. Playing to be a teacher for my younger siblings (taught them how to read, write, and later on math)
10. Reading the directions on the GPS (I always wanted to hold the GPS and give directions to my dad)
11. Competing in spelling bees at school and at home
12. Qubo had a lot of educational cartoons
13. The Magic Tree House books
14. Mrs. Rosenberg my US Modern History teacher

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1. My Mom often read novels which she has told us about in the past. This intrigued me to start reading for entertainment.
2. Chin - My friend who inspired me to start using audio books.
3. Mangas and Comics
4. Badminton - Coach gave me notebooks stating other player's play and counter play
5. Chess - Chess notation which taught me the importance of understanding language
6. International Highschool
7. Youtube
8. Anime as I watch sub - I have to practice reading faster to be able to keep up with the show
9. Musical Notes - Drum, Guitar, Bass

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- my parents (bookshelves filled with different kinds of books)
- my friend (they all like reading)
- my bed where I read every day after I went back home