The Importance Of Literacy Sponsors

One of the main literacy sponsors growing up was my mom. She was a three grade teacher until I was born. As I grew up she made sure I was reading a book and not wasting all my time watching tv. When I was still learning how to read chapter books my mom would sit on the couch with me and read for at least forty minutes every day so that I grew my read and vocabulary skills. On car rides, weather it was long or short, or if I was just sitting at the baseball field watching my brother play she always made me bring a book with me. Every summer she would take us to the library and my siblings and I would get involved in the library summer reading challenge. She made reading into a game and used my siblings and I’s competitiveness to make us read a bunch of books each summer. This got us into the habit of reading one book after another. Another literacy sponsor …show more content…
They moved in with a group of street children that live in an abandoned movie theater. In order for them to make a living they have to steal and sell things to a deceitful shoekeeper. Ms. Long allows us to share our reading logs in our weekly class meeting. We are able to talk about our likes and dislikes of our books and what we thought the author should have done differently. She would so let us rewrite a chapter or add a new chapter during one of our daily journals each week. This allowed to express our ideas and grow as a writer. Moving onto my first year in high school my English teacher, Mrs P., made me dread reading and writing. She made everything into a wrong or right answer with no discussion. She made reading into a task that I dreaded. Most of the books that she picked out for us to read didn’t interest me. She was very into the classical reading and I wasn’t a really into them. My friends were getting to read more fun and interesting books like Fault in Our Stars while I was reading Shakespeare. Mrs. P. was liked our papers and test to be done a certain way and most test were given