Author/age at time Main idea/ message about Literacy struggle/ Main literacy

of narrative / literacy challenge / event(s)

attitude accomplishment

Riley, 5th grade Literacy is more than just Struggle: Selecting a 5th grade novel
and senior year, reading and writing, its about novel, something he reading, senior
reflective the understanding and didnt want to do year project for
comprehension of literature, Accomplishment: his class, multi-
connection between literacy Presentation to his modal learning
and language/communication senior class

Danielle/ 4th Her exposure to different Racial frustration, Having different

grade/ Serious dialects lead her to a better Language Barriers, dialects than
understanding of languages. Different dialects, the people
Main message about literacy accomplished ability to around her in
is that having different handle having different America.
dialects allowed her to read accents.
people's facial expressions
better.

Kobe, Wilson You can overcome struggles Struggle, challenge, Becoming

6th Grade in literacy by working hard to
Reflective improve. Literacy isn't just
writing either, it also consists
of being able to read and
speak.
and accomplishment. confident in his
Struggled with certain own literary
aspects of writing. prowess.
Faced challenges in
regards to reading
performance and
situation in classroom.
Successfully became
more literate and
developed a love for
reading.

Daniel, 3rd Ability to understand and Recovering from poor Self Reflection,
Grade/Highschool apply grammar grammar performance, Entering high
becoming proficient in school
grammar

Jacob, preschool- With discipline literary skills Successes: Each Learning the
high school can always improve literary coach or alphabet;
teacher taught him learning how to
something he could properly
add to his writing pronounce
words and spell
them; discovery
of literary
devices; use of
other modes in
writing such as
concept maps
and graphic
organizers.