Who can finish first?
Warwick, Nicole (2009-03-28)
>>NICOLE WARWICK: Now? Okay. Where do I look? I always hate that. Does it matter?
>>INTERVIEWER: Amber. 
>>NICOLE WARWICK: Okay. I am Nicole Warwick and I am from Los Angeles. I teach at Calstate Northridge and I grew up in that area. I grew up in Van Nuys, California. I was a student at Calstate Northridge as an undergrad and then a master's student. Now I teach freshman Composition, Developmental Writing there. In my Developmental Writing courses they started doing literacy narratives a year ago. So, by doing literacy narratives with my students -- I do the free-writes with them -- I have discovered my own -- I do a lot of prewriting and scaffolding to eventually get to their own narratives. So I do that with them and I have kind of rediscovered these really great stories. 
>>NICOLE WARWICK: Some of the ones that stand out: my dad, he would always read to me as a kid. When I got older we had reading competitions with James Herriot books like who can finish them first? So I thought that was just awesome. I have a wonderful, supportive family in terms of reading so it just reminds me of how lucky I am. When I hear kids and they talk about that they didn't have their parents reading with them, so that is one of my favorite stories: having the competitions. He would always win but how cool is it to have a dad that would read the same books and who could get through it first? Then I had an aunt who was a librarian in Boston and she knew I love horse books. So she would send me lists of horse books that I might like to read. So I just had - mom was a reader, my dad was a reader; I was just surrounded by books and lots of books. 
>>INTERVIEWER: That's great. 
>>NICOLE WARWICK: That's my story. 
>>INTERVIEWER: Great!