https://padlet.com/pcserviss/u3csep8t051h7bdu 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 2023-08-06 05:19:47 UTC 2025-06-22 04:18:23 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/8.0/png/1f913.png pcserviss https://padlet.com/pcserviss/u3csep8t051h7bdu/wish/2656620907 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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