Literacy Sponsors In Powerful Reading And Writing Experience

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Who or what acted as literacy sponsors in your Powerful Reading and Writing experience? Think of not just people, but also institutions, circumstances, and resources. How did these sponsors shape your experience?

There was three people in my life that were there for me and taught me so much about learning how to be great in writing and told me to read in and out of their classroom. They made me feel better about writing and to not be afraid to mess up because I am the type of person to take long in writing just a simple paragraph.

What kind of literacies did they help you gain – skills, abilities, knowledge, practices? Looking back at the definition of literacy above, what were you learning how to do?

They helped me compose sentences

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