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I owe my academic successes to the teachers who understood the power of multiple intelligences and helped nurture my learning style.

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My literacy journey has been quite rewarding as I have begun to understand the value of having more than one literacy and the importance of good teachers who encourage creativity and individualism.

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I never really struggled with literacy in the traditional reading and writing sense, but I definitely had my difficulties staying literate within academic discourses in college.

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I was actively involved and engaged in academic discourse for the first time since high school, and I loved it, and still do!

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In my first semester back, I took three creative writing classes, and really found my voice in creative writing. I felt the way I did in Elementary school when I would let my creativity flow into my writing.

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I didn't really consider myself particularly academically adept until I went back to school for the second time in 2014.

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I dropped out of college and decided to pursue a career in hotel sales. I lived in Lodi for 4 years, but I still wanted to become an English teacher, so I moved home to Fresno to go back to school.

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I graduated high school and began at Fresno City College as an English major. I did not do well in college the first time. I goofed off, didn't do the work, and earned really bad grades.

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My junior year, I had a teacher named Ms. Lederach. She was amazing, and made reading even better with in-depth discussion and analysis of texts.

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My 6th grade teacher, Mr. Omata told my parents on several occasions that he thought I should write and illustrate children's books when I grew up.

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Ms. Castro was my teacher Freshman year. She reignited my love for reading because she taught Shakespeare and the Greek Tragedies with such passion that she made all of her students love that kind of literature.,

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When I reached high school, I already loved reading and writing, and I was blessed with some AMAZING English teachers.

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I also LOVED writing. I would write and illustrate my own books all the time and bind them with construction paper and yarn.

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I would get in trouble for reading books during math lessons. I would hide them in my lap

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I would read under a tree at recess instead of playing with other kids.

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I would read under the covers after my parents put me to sleep.

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My mother tells me that I began reading children's books at three years old. My mother was always reading with me, and I never really stopped.