Use the guidelines below to assist you in exploring, creating and presenting your personal literacy journey in any way you would like, e.g., through a poster, collage, scrapbook, traditional narrative, poem, song or using any media that you use to capture one or more aspects of your literacy development. The ideas below are intended to help you collect information about yourself rather than as particular components of your presentation (although they certainly could make up the elements of your presentation). Ultimately, you will need to decide what aspect of your literacy development you wish to focus on and how you will present it to others. Suggestions for getting started follow:
a. Think about three or four living members of your family, friends or colleagues who know something about your literacy development.
Make a phone call or email asking them if they would be willing to talk to you about your literacy development.
b. Think about the book you brought to class that impacted your life as a reader and also how writing has been involved in your literacy life.
c. Think of others outside your family who may have influenced your literacy development.
Make a list of questions you might want to ask them.
Record what they say and how they answered your questions. Get as many details as possible, including names, dates, and places.
d. Create a graphic organizer for how you will present your history.
e. As you construct your literacy history, look for themes and connections that you see running throughout your life that would lead to where you are as a student, as a reader, and as a teacher as well as a code breaker/meaning maker/ text user/text analyzer. (See Anstey and Bull for a description of these terms or use other paradigms to help you organize your thinking.)
In addition, you may choose any or all of the following to recount, describe, and analyze:
• Early family background
• Early schooling, elementary, middle school or junior high
• Secondary school and college years
• Professional induction years
• Graduate school
• Professional maturity
• Reflections on your professional life
• Reflections on your personal life
• Thoughts for the future
• Think of your identity as a reader and writer
• How you are a code breaker, meaning maker, text user, and text analyst
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