https://padlet.com/nepearsall/8538bmntl6fpix7b Make a list of literacy sponsors from your life. Make sure they are sponsors beyond the people who have been in your classrooms (teachers, etc.). What organizations, events, traditions, etc have acted as literacy sponsors in your life? en-us 2022-01-06 17:43:58 UTC 2026-01-21 16:07:09 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4bb.png nepearsall https://padlet.com/nepearsall/8538bmntl6fpix7b/wish/1979209555 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)



]]> 2022-01-06 17:43:58 UTC https://padlet.com/nepearsall/8538bmntl6fpix7b/wish/1979209555 nepearsall https://padlet.com/nepearsall/8538bmntl6fpix7b/wish/1979209559

My brother's Godfather, Lambros (told us stories & sang traditional Greek songs)

Playing Scrabble as a kid

Being translator for my immigrant parents, brother (before he learned English), and grandmother

basketball (coach gave us notebooks to learn plays)

Practicing my French when we would visit family in Montreal

Greek School (church)

Greek Mythology (giant book I read over and over)

Dr. Paul Goldstene (college)

Human Services 45 (an elective course where we tutored lementary school kids in reading)

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)

Sesame Street & The Electric Company on Saturday mornings

]]> 2022-01-06 17:43:58 UTC https://padlet.com/nepearsall/8538bmntl6fpix7b/wish/1979209559 nepearsall https://padlet.com/nepearsall/8538bmntl6fpix7b/wish/1979209560

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 

]]> 2022-01-06 17:43:58 UTC https://padlet.com/nepearsall/8538bmntl6fpix7b/wish/1979209560 nepearsall https://padlet.com/nepearsall/8538bmntl6fpix7b/wish/1979209561 -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


]]> 2022-01-06 17:43:58 UTC https://padlet.com/nepearsall/8538bmntl6fpix7b/wish/1979209561 nepearsall https://padlet.com/nepearsall/8538bmntl6fpix7b/wish/1979209562
1. Eye exams and getting glasses in the 10th grade
2. Watching older sister record herself reading books
3. First grade reading circles
4. Moving to Australia in 6th grade and mispronouncing words when reading aloud in class
5. Teaching my daughter to read
6. My uncle Bob's home library
7. My cousin's Dr. Seuss books


]]> 2022-01-06 17:43:58 UTC https://padlet.com/nepearsall/8538bmntl6fpix7b/wish/1979209562 https://padlet.com/nepearsall/8538bmntl6fpix7b/wish/1979611732 1) Public Library 
2) Barnes and Noble gift card I got for my birthday
3) Reading competition with my siblings 
4)Being an interpreter for my family 
5) My mom read to me a lot as a kid
6) My elementary teacher would pay for my book orders from Scholastic. (I thought coins were dollars and she never told me ) ]]> 2022-01-06 22:07:45 UTC https://padlet.com/nepearsall/8538bmntl6fpix7b/wish/1979611732 https://padlet.com/nepearsall/8538bmntl6fpix7b/wish/1981297205 1. My dad telling stories about him growing up 
2. My mom teaching me some Tagalog when I was a kid, and her always asking me advice for English / grammar
3. Applying for scholarships and UC PIQ's
4. My music teacher (or me) writing down explanations so I can remember what I learned
5. Watching YouTube videos and movies (for fun and to learn) 
6. Minecraft and playing games (overall just social media/ the Internet) 
7. Playing GamePigeon games (Anagrams and Word Hunt) 
8. Libraries 

]]> 2022-01-08 00:10:27 UTC https://padlet.com/nepearsall/8538bmntl6fpix7b/wish/1981297205 hdapkewicz https://padlet.com/nepearsall/8538bmntl6fpix7b/wish/1981303594

^{Yolo County Library} 

^{Big Bang Theory}

^{My Mom, Dad, and Grandpa (helped me with my math and English)}

^{Davis Senior High School}

^{The Book Fair and Battle of the Books}

^{Hebrew School (Temple) and my Hebrew teacher who taught me how to speak the language}

 ^{My soccer coach (gave us plays to learn)}

^UCD

^{Reading the Torah during Jewish holidays} 

]]> 2022-01-08 00:24:48 UTC https://padlet.com/nepearsall/8538bmntl6fpix7b/wish/1981303594 slely https://padlet.com/nepearsall/8538bmntl6fpix7b/wish/1981422877 - my older sister always giving me her old books growing up

- my volleyball coach

- elementary school book fairs

- my dad taking my sister and i to the library every summer

- Gilmore Girls

- my high school best friend

- ucd

- social media influencers

- my grandma]]> 2022-01-08 04:16:13 UTC https://padlet.com/nepearsall/8538bmntl6fpix7b/wish/1981422877 mijchen https://padlet.com/nepearsall/8538bmntl6fpix7b/wish/1981468596 1) My cousins who gave me all of their old books
2) Elementary school book fair and book orders
3) My grandma who sent me and my sister to the library every summer afternoon when we were younger
4) Chinatown Public Library
5) Percy Jackson
6) Rainbow Magic Faries
7) My elementary teachers who would gave me free books at the end of every school year
8)  My dad's personal library of chinese-english books




]]> 2022-01-08 06:20:58 UTC https://padlet.com/nepearsall/8538bmntl6fpix7b/wish/1981468596 piggyyqy https://padlet.com/nepearsall/8538bmntl6fpix7b/wish/1982696604 1. Grandpa's bedtime stories
2. Grandparents' writing practices (they are both teachers!)
3. All the books my family collected, poetry, novel, magazine, and so on.
4. School libraries
5. Public libraries
6. Favorite high school teacher Ms. Willett
7. Dramas, movies, plays, TV shows
8. Friens that read together
9. Reading week
10. School writing assignments that made me read and write a lot
11. National Geography 
12. Shixi Sheng

]]> 2022-01-09 22:13:03 UTC https://padlet.com/nepearsall/8538bmntl6fpix7b/wish/1982696604 gmkilday https://padlet.com/nepearsall/8538bmntl6fpix7b/wish/1982702028 1. My mom read to me a lot as a child.
2. Playing scrabble with my family
3. My grandma who gave me old books from when my mom was a kid.
4. The Scolastic book fair from elementary/middle school.

]]> 2022-01-09 22:23:51 UTC https://padlet.com/nepearsall/8538bmntl6fpix7b/wish/1982702028 armmahoney https://padlet.com/nepearsall/8538bmntl6fpix7b/wish/1982765384 - going to the library as a kid 
- assigned reading in school 
- learning to take notes when i was younger which required lots of reading 
- my grandparents reading to me 
- reading to my younger brother when he was born 
- my parents telling me stories 
- playing games on long car rides with the road signs  
- learning to play piano as a child which included learning to write music and reading about techniques 
- learning to write in cursive 
- going on summer volunteer trips and doing daily journaling]]> 2022-01-10 00:22:33 UTC https://padlet.com/nepearsall/8538bmntl6fpix7b/wish/1982765384 myaqub5 https://padlet.com/nepearsall/8538bmntl6fpix7b/wish/1982797911 1. My parents telling about their time.
2. My uncle gifting me books to read.
3. Learning Chinese and French at school.
4. Playing cards, monopoly and other board games when younger.
5. Visiting school library and writing reports on books as assignments. 
6. Collecting books from school book fairs. 

]]> 2022-01-10 00:54:15 UTC https://padlet.com/nepearsall/8538bmntl6fpix7b/wish/1982797911 Zubaira https://padlet.com/nepearsall/8538bmntl6fpix7b/wish/1982855269 - sunday comics
- MTV
-bazooka bubble gum wrappers
- dumpster diving in high school w friends (clean recyclables)
-Mad Libs
- word search puzzle books from foodmaxx 
- magazines in dentist offices
-after visit summaries from doctor's office
- translating for immigrant parents
-war stories
- Quran translations
- radio callers
-walkie talkies
- books left in the back of the garage from previous owners 


]]> 2022-01-10 01:44:01 UTC https://padlet.com/nepearsall/8538bmntl6fpix7b/wish/1982855269 https://padlet.com/nepearsall/8538bmntl6fpix7b/wish/1982878311 - my parents teaching me Spanish as my first language
- learning English at school
- being gifted super hero books
- constantly being at the library as a kid
- mother's bed time stories
- movies, youtube, social media
- playing literature games at school

]]> 2022-01-10 02:03:19 UTC https://padlet.com/nepearsall/8538bmntl6fpix7b/wish/1982878311 tdvobui https://padlet.com/nepearsall/8538bmntl6fpix7b/wish/1982909115 1) Grandparents passing down history books to me
2) Martin Luther King Jr. Library (San Jose)
3) Scrabble, Bananagrams, & Sequence
4) Vietnamese School
5) Daily Journaling
6) Duolingo-Spanish, French, & Italian
7) Book Club back in middle/high school
8) Went to Boarding School in London for a bit and learned German/French (forgot everything when I came back to the states lol.)
9) Voice Lessons
10) UCD]]> 2022-01-10 02:29:13 UTC https://padlet.com/nepearsall/8538bmntl6fpix7b/wish/1982909115 cecamicia https://padlet.com/nepearsall/8538bmntl6fpix7b/wish/1982960086 - high school best friend / friends in general
- elementary/middle school book fairs
- #booktok (tiktok)
- youtube videos, shows, movies
- creative writing contests
- learning mandarin
- high school teachers]]> 2022-01-10 03:14:59 UTC https://padlet.com/nepearsall/8538bmntl6fpix7b/wish/1982960086 naalmubarak https://padlet.com/nepearsall/8538bmntl6fpix7b/wish/1983104917
2- worlwide book exchange program
2- good movies/shows that have book sequels
3- foreign movies/shows with subtitles
4- my younger cousins
5- going to an international school
6- non english native family members

]]> 2022-01-10 05:24:14 UTC https://padlet.com/nepearsall/8538bmntl6fpix7b/wish/1983104917 elihung https://padlet.com/nepearsall/8538bmntl6fpix7b/wish/1983126374 - I was homeschooled through elementary and middle school. I went through a curriculum that in retrospect was way too advanced for my age but introduced me to higher level reading.
- My mother taught me how to read
- My siblings and I would be dropped off by our parents at the public library, encouraging us to read.
- One of my mother's old piano students was growing out of books they had as a kid, and so they dropped off boxes and boxes of novels and picture books that now fill a few bookshelves in my home.
- My theatre teacher in high school taught us ways to read Shakespeare to enhance it's meaning.
- Book series that expanded my understanding of writing styles, such as the Harry Potter series, longestjokeintheworld.com, Lemony Snicket books, and a book called "There is a Man", by Pete Hsu.
- My dad's old comic book collection was the only form of entertainment my siblings had when we were at his office.]]> 2022-01-10 05:46:01 UTC https://padlet.com/nepearsall/8538bmntl6fpix7b/wish/1983126374 rxshan https://padlet.com/nepearsall/8538bmntl6fpix7b/wish/1983156483 1. My parents (bought a lot of books for me)
2. Chinese traditional culture and Chinese history study tours hold by my father's friend's company.
3. Online novels
4. Games
5. Former co-worker of my board game store internship]]> 2022-01-10 06:13:54 UTC https://padlet.com/nepearsall/8538bmntl6fpix7b/wish/1983156483 hajafari https://padlet.com/nepearsall/8538bmntl6fpix7b/wish/1983156921 - the kid's section of the Santa Rosa Barnes and Noble store
- ballet
- the Quran
- the really satisfying specific shade of nude lip gloss that one really pretty teen volunteer girl wore while reading picture books to the kindergarteners (me at the time) in my elementary school library
- AO3
- Annabeth Chase
- the concept of enemies to lovers
- Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark and In A Dark Dark Room (I memorized and could recite that whole story from start to finish)
- bicuriousity
- the elementary school restricted section of books that were only available to 6th, 7th, and 8th graders
- Swan Lake
- "lemons" 
- Iran's Revolution]]> 2022-01-10 06:14:17 UTC https://padlet.com/nepearsall/8538bmntl6fpix7b/wish/1983156921 rikayo https://padlet.com/nepearsall/8538bmntl6fpix7b/wish/1983308681 1. My grandmother. She has always been my "teacher" as I was raised by her and my grandfather.

2. Manga from my primary school. I learned Japanese from Detective Conan.

3. "One Hundred Thousand Whys", and science magazines. The former is an educational book series from China and I loved reading them. 

4. My BFF from secondary school. She is my soulmate and she always forgive me for talking in crap Japanese.

5. Textbooks. I always read every single articles in the textbooks back in primary and secondary schools once after I got the textbooks. But I no longer do that now. College textbooks are insane.



]]> 2022-01-10 08:03:25 UTC https://padlet.com/nepearsall/8538bmntl6fpix7b/wish/1983308681 kserrano16 https://padlet.com/nepearsall/8538bmntl6fpix7b/wish/2092491800 - Scholastic book fairs and book orders
- Los Angeles public libraries
- PBS cartoons like word girl, between the lions, Martha speaks, and electric company.
- ELD program in elementary school
- My cousin who gave who gave me a book for my birthday to complete my diary of a wimpy kid collection.
- Games I played in elementary school computer lab on outdated G3 imacs.]]> 2022-03-13 17:11:07 UTC https://padlet.com/nepearsall/8538bmntl6fpix7b/wish/2092491800