Blog #1

Greetings fellow class mates! My name is Teri Snow. I am an English Ed. major and a music minor. I am a Senior this year, graduating next spring, and will be continuing my education in the credential program here at Chico State. I intend to obtain my Single, Special Ed., Masters, and possibly Multiple Subject credentials. I am really excited to be coming to the end of a long school career and look forward to teaching my own class some day in the near future.

I am from Corning, which is a little speck of a town about 30 minutes from Chico, where I also grew up. I am the middle child of seven kids in my family. When I’m studying like a mad woman for school or doing homework, I love hanging out with family, friends, and my boyfriend. I also love getting outdoors, hiking, walking, going for bike rides, reading, hanging out at upper/lower Bidwell park. I am a very social person and love being around/meeting new people, so don’t be afraid to say hello.

Reading response: I never really thought about how much we read everyday, signs, texts, paper work, etc. I guess I always pictured “reading” as personal reading for pleasure. We really are surrounded by literature in every aspect of our every day lives. Same thing with reading; we write lists, notes, texts, social media posts, etc. Again, I don’t think people realize how much literacy is part of everything we do. Both forms of literacy are important forms of communication. For me, these forms of literacy help me relax, remember, organize, and communicate with my coworkers. I found the Szwed reading interesting because he was pointing out that literacy is more than simply just reading and/or writing. It’s a set of skills that vary for every person and has layers to the elements of literacy. I don’t know if this information is necessarily new to me, but it’s something I hadn’t really thought about in the way he discussed, so I liked the points he brought up that made me think “oh yeah, I didn’t realize that”. For example, I liked his quote stating “Educators often assume that reading and writing form a single standard set of skills to be acquired and used as a whole by individuals who acquire them in a progression of steps…these skills are distributed across a variety of people”. He brings up a good point about authors not being the only ones who do the work; there is a whole team of people that collaborate to come up with the final production. Even though that’s something I knew, it just kind of made me think about how true that is. Every great piece of work has gone through multiple editing rounds.