I teach third grade at a high-poverty school in a very rural area in North Carolina, filled with small town love. Unfortunately, socioeconomic factors can lead to disparities in access to books at home and hinder opportunities to experience the world around them, which greatly influences their individual development in school. However, my third graders are working hard to become strong readers. As their teacher, I try to present my students with as many opportunities to succeed as possible. To help my students succeed, I read aloud to them daily and give them a plethora of opportunities to interact with books independently from our classroom library. By reading aloud, I can introduce new vocabulary, model good reading habits, provide common experiences among my students, and give them numerous opportunities to make connections to other books, to their own experiences, and to the world around them. The more contact children have with books, the better readers they become.
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I teach third grade at a high-poverty school in a very rural area in North Carolina, filled with small town love. Unfortunately, socioeconomic factors can lead to disparities in access to books at home and hinder opportunities to experience the world around them, which greatly influences their individual development in school. However, my third graders are working hard to become strong readers. As their teacher, I try to present my students with as many opportunities to succeed as possible. To help my students succeed, I read aloud to them daily and give them a plethora of opportunities to interact with books independently from our classroom library. By reading aloud, I can introduce new vocabulary, model good reading habits, provide common experiences among my students, and give them numerous opportunities to make connections to other books, to their own experiences, and to the world around them. The more contact children have with books, the better readers they become.
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