Deborah Brandt Blog

A literacy sponsor is any agent, local or distant, concrete or abstract, who enable, support, teach, model, as well as recruit, regulate, suppress, or withhold literacy- and gain advantage by it in some way. Sponsors set the terms for access to literacy and wield powerful incentives and loyalty. Sponsors are tangible reminders that literacy throughout history has always required permission, sanction, assistance, coercion, or, at minimum, contact with existing trade routes.
In my, life there has been many literacy sponsors. My parents are the first ones they always supported me in my strive to be literate. My elementary school teachers who taught me to be literate are a big literacy sponsor. Besides human sponsors, I have had other forms of sponsors. All of my children’s books were a sponsor in my becoming literate. The books helped me practice my reading. A computes is another one of my literacy sponsors because o I played games on it the help me read and improve my reading skills. Reader Rabbit was one of those games. It helped me learn how to read better with fun and interesting games and adventures.