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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.

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1.My mom(always made we write notes to people)
2.Vidoe games
3.Baseball(knowing plays writing down signs)
4.The Hardy Boys Books
5.Card Games
6.Sports Cards
7.Sports events(MLB & NBA)
8.The Blacklist

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1) Dora the Explorer
2) childhood friends
3) My Dad teaching me different patterns for rubix cube and strategies for chess
4) Diary of the Wimpy Kid Series
5) Winx Club(watched every morning bfore school)
6) Mr. Chase (best high school english teacher, assigned like a million books to read)
7) word hunt (imessage pigeon game)
8) Piano classes with Ms. Bonnie
9) Basketball practice everyday
10). watching multiple youtube vidoes with my friends as a kid (learning how to make slime, cookies, etc.)
11) NARNIA MOVIES
12) sunday school (church)

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- dork diaries series
- 3rd grade
- reading log
- summer reading program
- 'ar' tests
- American girl doll
- thank you cards
- childhood friends
- magic tree house series
- popcorn reading
- reading outloud

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1. My parents
2. My teachers and education
3. My friends and peers throughout the years
4. TV and movies (sci-fi has always been my favorite genre to watch)
5. Books (my childhood favorite reads are Harry Potter, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and How to Train Your Dragon)
6. Video games (Minecraft and Halo 3 are my all-time favorites)
7. Sports and fitness
8. The internet (YouTube)

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-Mom and Dad(translate some random document)
-2nd grade reading logs(weekly)
-Zombie Chasers (book series)
-Sports (NBA & MMA)
-Summer reading assignments(a billion books for company during the summer)
-Wordle(fun)
-Reading outloud(2nd grade)
-Mrs.Montanez(AP lit)
-Card Games
-Church class
-Dora the Explorer
-Montebello Library

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- My Grandfather (headmaster in Co. Tipperary, Ireland)

- My mother and father (encouraged reading)

- Vacaville Jets Youth Hockey Organization

- Vacaville Ice Sports

- Laurie Fio (High School English Teacher)

- Vacaville Library

- My Aunt (many phone calls and emails of help and encouragement from Dublin)

- Alec Martinez (NHL player)

- St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church (Diocese of Sacramento)

- My cousins (I'm an only child)

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1. My parents
2. My older brother
3. My teachers
4. My tutors
5. Public library and at home library
6. Childhood TV shows (PBS Kids)
6. Friends who were more literate than me
7. Video games
8. Word Hunt and Wordle

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1. Mom started teaching me the alphabet when I was little
2. Went to English preschool and didn't know a single word at the beginning (English is my 2nd language)
3. Watch cartoons like The Simpsons or Shrek in English (forced by my parents, but it helped!)
4. Won an English essay competition held by my county in 6th grade
5. I Got into the public expense study abroad program from my county, Hualien, Taiwan, and started my journey in the U.S
6. Made American friends and learned slang/ daily conversation
7. High school lit class helped a lot(reading a lot of novels and writing many essays

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1) 10th grade English student teacher
2) Research, studies, and neuroscience from a phycological perspective
3) athletics training and coaching(read a lot of research for myself and how to coach)
4) physical therapist(intern and patient)
5) letters to family members

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1. My science teacher in freshman and junior year of high school
2. My parents, who encouraged me reading and helped me with homework
3. Movies
4. Kumon
5. Summer reading challenge by the library
6. TV shows I watched as a kid and now
7. Medical Occupations class
8. Nancy Drew books
9. Music teacher

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1. My mom(always made sure I had support when I needed it and would help me regardless of how long it would take)
2.My sister(She was always better at writing and would stay up late and help me finish my essay)
3.All of my teachers( always helped me get better with my grammar and showed me techniques on how to do so)
4.My uncle( would help and talk to me about literacy stories like greek myths to help my understanding)
5. My friend Martine and his family(always helped us and made us read even if I was over there I had to read)
6. Video games( made me read in game to figure out puzzles Breath of the wild, star wars survivor, and so on)
7.  Learning how to solve a rubix cube( learning how to recognize patterns)
8. Chess(making sure to stay patient and consider all possibilities)

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- Santa Clara Public Library
- my friends
- my 9th grade English teacher
- Elementary, Middle, High school
- Hindu festivals and religious occasions
- My father
- Doctor appointments
- family game night
- Leigh Bardugo
- Netflix/documentaries
- Marching Band

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-My mom made me write diaries when I was little
-Youtube gave me animations that go along with texts helps me learn better
-The library introduced me to graphic novels
-Word hunt improved my vocabulary
-School is where I did most of my English activities and learned my way of reading and writing
-TV shows and cartoons especially the magic school bus
-Teachers
-coolmath games had some learning games
-Accelerated reader program we had in our elementary school encouraged reading and getting quizzed since you can get rewards

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1 My parents & my grandparents especially my grandmother (Chinese)
2 My friends( English & Chinese)
3 Movies & Series (English) such as Harry-potter, Three musketeers, West World, 2 Broke Girls, Cells At Work, Interstellar.......
4My TOEFL teacher & TOEFL Exam experience(English)
5 Social Media like Bilibili, Youtube and TikTok
6 Books (most bout biology)
7 Weekly chess lessons with Mr.Jiang for 10 years (Chinese)
8 Photography & Photoshop online class (Chinese)
9 Video games( CS, Apex, Genshin Impact,  Honkai Impact.......)
10 Cold Spring Harbor (Chinese)
11 Suzhou institute of material medical( Chinese)
12 Work out(English)

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-My Mom (always encouraged and taught me how to write my name and sentences)
-My Dad (before and even now, he tries to use deep words or give me history facts, and then Proceeds to tell me to look it up to fully understand what he said)
-Friends (got me hooked on Television shows and games, *Always loved to have captions with anything)
-11th and 12th grade English teachers (gave pretty fun assignments that allowed us to write and make our own stories, also the novels we were given to read was quite entertaining)
-Word Hunt (Game Pigeon with Friends) & Wordle too
-Comics and Reddit Stories (just very entertaining stories to read and/or listen too)

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My mother (cultivated my habit of reading from a young age

My Primary School (a very new school but with many responsible teachers

The Chinese Teacher in My Junior High School (always be supportive and help me learn deep in Chinese Literature

The American Literature Teacher in My Senior High School (graduated from UCLA and with really professional level of teaching Literature

The International Relationship Teacher also in My Senior High (provides great perspective and specific instructions to learn the world

My friends and e-friends (always help me know more about other languages and cultures, e.g., English, Thai, Japanese

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- Calvin and hobbes
- Geronimo Stilton
- Wayside school
- Junior Year high school English teacher
- Video Games (Persona 5)
- Anime (Steins Gate)
- Manga (Spy X family)
- James Scholz (study youtuber)

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-Sesame Street
-Khan Academy
-Crosswords/word searches
-Dr. Seuss books
-Any show on PBS kids or Nick Jr.
-My parents
-My grandmother
-Accelerated Reader
-Geronimo Stilton books

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Church School: I would have to recite texts from the bible and my grandmother made me download church apps that I had to study and read constantly

My parents: They would read to my brother and I when we were younger

Watching “Super Why!”: Taught us about stories and different vocabulary

AR Reading Tests: Would win prizes if we read the most books so it always motivated me to be in the library

Playing Word Hunt: My friends and I would have word hunt battles

ELD: Put in an English development class in elementary because I struggled with it

My 8th grade Honors English Teacher: Was super strict about our essays, made us write one every week or two

Wordle: Caused me to think of new words and learn their meaning

Rubix cube: My brother and I would watch videos on how to solve the different kinds or rubix cubes