Literacy Sponsors (AM) by Trish Serviss https://padlet.com/pcserviss/b8eng1tnzxcdz7gh INSTRUCTIONS: Create a new pin below. Make a list of literacy sponsors from your life. Make sure you include some 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? There are some examples below to get you started. en-us 2024-09-30 23:13:37 UTC 2024-12-03 06:02:38 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/8.0/png/1f913.png Trish's Literacy Sponsors pcserviss https://padlet.com/pcserviss/b8eng1tnzxcdz7gh/wish/3147228650 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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  • 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
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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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    -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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  • High School Spanish Literature teacher

  • Radio Bilingue Youth Program in which we had to learn how to read scripts

  • Elementary Summer Reading Challenge

  • Social media especially Reddit and Instagram

  • Rainbow Magic Fairies Books

  • Cbeebies cartoons

  • Catholic School

  • Popcorn Reading

  • Public Speaking and stuttering words

  • Journal entries and to-do lists

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  • PBS Kids

  • My first grade teacher (read Junie B. Jones in class)

  • My third grade teacher (formally as my elementary librarian)

  • Local library

  • Pen pallers

  • Bullet journaling

  • My mother (would make me read and write every day as a kid)

  • Kid A (tutoring program like Kumon)

  • Learning Mandarin in martial arts class

  • Writing my own comic books as a kid

  • Doing word searches and cross words

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  • taylor swifts music

  • my mom

  • my sophomore year honors English teacher

  • playing school with cousins growing up

  • Senior year Ap Lit teacher

  • dance classes

  • showing livestock at the county fair every year

  • FFA

  • My ag teachers

  • My two older brothers

  • Bill Nye the Science Guy

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  • My Mom

  • Goosebumps Scary Stories to Read in the Dark

  • Diary of a Wimpy Kid

  • Greek Mythology

  • Bill Nye

  • Little House on the Prairie

  • Harry Potter

  • PBS Kids (Wild Kratts, Sesame Street, Clifford, etc.)

  • Chinese Folklore (Grandma)

  • Book fairs at my elementary school/ Reading competitions over the summer

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  • Barney the Dinosaur

  • My mom

  • Dora the Explorer

  • Diary of a Wimpy Kid

  • Scary Stories to tell in the dark

  • WRAP, after school program for elementary school

  • My local library

  • Lexia Core 5

  • My Japanese teacher, all four years of highschool

  • PBS kids

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  • My Mother

  • My brother Lucas

  • PBS kids (Super Y, Dinosaur Train, Martha speaks, Curious George)

  • Jonathan fielding (UCLA professor. Offered free SAT practice and mentorship)

  • Close family doctor, Dr. Patel

  • Jurassic Park

  • Harry Potter

  • Elementary book fairs

  • Documentaries such as National Geographic

  • Learning spanish from my grandparents at a young age

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  • My mom

  • My sister

  • Church

  • Wild Kratts/PBS Kids

  • My elementary and high school teacher

  • Car Magazines

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  • pbs kids

  • wild kratts

  • dora the explorer

  • barney the dinasour

  • animal fact books

  • lexia core 5

  • clifford

  • sesame street


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  • Being a translator for my parents

  • My 5th grade teacher

  • My junior-year English teacher

  • Dora the Explorer

  • Sesame Street

  • Warrior Cats Book Series

  • Magic Tree House Book Series

  • Social Media

  • Judy Moody Book Series

  • PBS Kids

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  • My mom reading to me every night before bed when I was younger

  • Dirty of Wimpy Kid

  • Junie B Jones

  • Kumon

  • My AP Lang teacher

  • Speaking Spanish at work and with my best friends family

  • Book reports in elementary

  • Wizards of Waverley Place

  • FFA (I would do public speaking competitions)

  • Working in the food industry and constantly having to talk to my coworkers/customers

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  • PBS kids / especially the word soup show and wild kratts

  • Playing word searches in school

  • translating for my mom

  • Percy Jackson books

  • Schools library

  • playing those reading games on the schools computers during computer lab time

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    1. Odd squad (PBS Show)

    2. Octonauts(show)

    3. Ask the Storybots(show)

    4. Matilda(movie 1996)

    5. Junior and Senior Year Highschool English Teacher

    6. My Mom

    7. Word Hunt (imessage game)

    8. Books read in class and essays for them (exp:Beowulf)

    9. AR reading system in elementary school

    10. Hunger Games movies and books

    11. Dear Dumb Diary books

    12. Cat in the Hat books

    13. Writing my own stories when I was a kid

    14. My boyfriend(really good at writing)

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  • PBS Kids Shows (Curious George, Clifford the Big Red Dog, Sid the Science Kid, Martha Speaks)

  • Dora the Explorer

  • Disney Channel (Violetta, Jessie, Good Luck Charlie, Hannah Montana, Wizards of Waverly Place, High School Musical, Lemonade Mouth)

  • Mrs. Calderón (Kinder teacher who taught me how to read and write)

  • First-grade English teacher (first time I practiced reading and speaking in English)

  • Journaling

  • Middle School library

  • Middle School writing competitions

  • Accelerated Reader (AR) in sixth grade (English curriculum program that required students to read new books, log daily journal entries, and take a quiz at the end to test understanding of the book)

  • The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

  • The Land of Stories by Chris Colfer

  • A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket

  • Translating/helping my mom learn how to write and speak in English

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  • Rick Riordan(Percy Jackson book series)

  • 6th grade English teacher

  • elementary-middle school librarian

  • Wings of Fire book series

  • My Little Pony

  • Ninjago

  • Omniscient Reader

  • Geronimo Stilton book series

  • Blackpink

  • Scott Lynch(Lies of Locke Lamora)

  • Susanna Clarke(Piranesi)

  • Fyodor Dosteovsky(Crime and Punishment)

  • Traveling

  • Friends

  • English Tutor


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  • My sister

  • My parents

  • Church

  • Octonauts

  • Dora the explorer

  • my 5th grade teacher

  • My AP Spanish teacher

  • the ruff ruffman show

  • My marine and zoology teacher from high school

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  • SpongeBob, South Park, and many more

  • My 10th, 11th, 12th grade English teachers

  • English tutor

  • ELA program in school

  • Lexia Core 5

  • a TON of video games

  • Series of Unfortunate Events (the books not TV show)

  • Franz Kafka Documentary

  • Youtube


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  • My Parents

  • My friends

  • Afterschool program in elementary school

  • Movies

  • TV Shows

  • Music

  • Podcasts

  • Journaling

  • Book fairs at my elementary school

  • My drive to succeed

  • 1984 By George Orwell

  • My 5th grade teacher

  • My 11th, and 12th grade English teachers

  • Dune by Frank Herbert

  • Mark Twain

  • Historical texts/readings

  • AP Government readings

  • AP Biology readings

  • UC Davis

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