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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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1. Eye exams

2. Watching older sister record herself reading books

3. Moving to Australia in 6th grade and mispronouncing words when reading aloud in class

4. Teaching my daughter to read

5. Well-read friends

6. Two month recovery from surgery

7. My uncle Bob's weird home library

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1. Translating for my grandparents

2. 4th-grade essay contest against kids from my school & other schools

3. Helping my younger sister with her pronunciation

4. Being a lector for my high school's school mass (I went to a private Catholic school)

5. My senior-year high school teacher

6. My volleyball coach

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1. French classes in high-school.

2. Friends who loved reading books.

3. My elder sister

4. My football coach

5. Harry potter books

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Michelle Yiqing Wang's Literacy Sponsors

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Michelle Yiqing Wang's Literacy Sponsors

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1. High school Reading Contest

2. Travelers need to speak English

3. International School study

4. My classmate, who love reading detective novel

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My schools library growing up

My mom reading books to me every night when I was learning how to read

Getting at least one book every chrismas

my friends reading with me

Translating for my parents

many favorite books.

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1. My life in international high school

2. My parents and my friends

3. Love of life

4. Various novels (as long as they are interesting to me)

5. Games for my education and relaxation

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1. My grandparents (accompanied me to read short stories when I was 5 years old)

2. My younger brother (loves reading, and he pushes me to read more books)

3. My volleyball coach

4. My uncle (loves to find interesting ways to study)

5. My friend who loves writing sotries

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1. Friends who love reading

2. After-school educational programs

3. English writing tutors in high school

4. My younger sister

5.Volunteer events

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1. My host families in high school

2. English movies (watching in movie theater)

3. The history classes in high school( we have to write essay and read a lot)

4. My friends( we study together and read books together)

5. Studying in America when I was 15 years old.

6. Library in Los Angeles

7. The activities in English class ( We will play word solitaire）

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1. cartoons I watched when I was a child

2. Otome games

3. Manga

4. Films and film reviews

5. Teachers in my middle school

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1.The fairy tales my parents told me when I was little children.

2.International high school study and life experience

3.Soccer match in my city

4.Live with my grandparents

5.Participate in school knowledge competitions

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1. High school study

2. English movies

3. my parents and friends

4. after school educational programs

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1. Middle school and high school study

2. English movies

3. English corner used to help with develop my speaking skills

4. My favorite music band

5. High school and college choir

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1. My Siblings(We competed over who could read the most books during Elementary)

2. Helped my mom as a translator

3. Movies(Watched a lot of movies with subtitles when I first learned english)

4. After School Bible Study Group(Encouraged to read bible)

5. Video Games(Played a lot of text heavy games)

6. Ophthalmologist(Wear prescription glasses)

7. Parents(Would read me stories in both english and spanish)

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1. My parents

2. My tutor

3. Reading wattpads

4. Covid (led me to reading more books)

5. Volunteering

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1. Older brother who introduced me new books to read

2. Writing classes in elementary school

3. Reading books throughout elementary to high school

4. Working at Kumon and teaching younger students

5. Translating for my grandma

6. Boy scouts

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1. Kumon taught me how to do math

2. Reading romance novels

3. Key Club taught me how to communicate with other people

4. My brother used to read Dr. Seuss books to me

5. Chinese and Korean Dramas

6. My TA in my COM5 class

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1. The boss I used to work for

2. Foreign language songs (listen to them on mobile apps)

3. Libraries in China

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-Family members telling me stories about their life

-Friends who shared an interest in reading and would talk about what they read

-Video Games, they made me want to be able to read to understand the controls

-The shelf of books at a hospital

-Watching Movies and TV shows with captions on

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1. My mother, who like buying me books

2. Bilibili, which often recommend videos about different books

3. My friends, who enjoy discussing books with me

4. Search engines that tells me what books are interesting and good to read

5. Tests that requires me to read and interpret.

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1. My high school advisor. (always push me)

2. My borther. (He has coached me on many things, using his past experience.)

3. The basketball friends.

4. Game videos and strategies.

5. English movies.