Students put their literacy experiences to words in the forms of literacy narratives, and in the confines of these stories, children shift from one identity to the next. These “identity shifts” are directly caused by interaction with either a positive or negative “sponsor” that results in a change of the student’s perception. This transformation is inevitable, and in fact it is tremendously important. This change is what gives the narrative, the experience, and the student meaning, as without a shift in the normal, without a nudge in the right or wrong direction, nothing and nobody would ever be unique. Unfortunately, this is almost impossible to actually observe as there is no conceivable to have children who do not experience interactions of any kind. However, we can through theory and logic predict what that might create. Thankfully, we have sponsors enacting identity shifts in students continuously that shape them into the readers, the writers, and the people they are today.
