As an educator I want students to love reading, because its something they will be doing for the rest of their lives whether they want to or not. I think kids are more likely to like something especially school related if they feel they are good at it. I want to encourage reading with parents at home , which I know can be difficult, but then also providing plenty of time in class to be exposed to different genres of books to hopefully help to foster a love for reading. I have worked in schools doing levelled literacy and a lot of the schools I have been to have been lower income, and it is astounding to me at the number of children who do not have what I thought to be basic literacy skills, there a lot of students who were not able to recognize the letters in the alphabet. Knowing that not every family has the income to provide reading resources to their children as an educator I will try my best to have a library of books for my students to choose from to take home with them to...
I think that my early exposure to literacy helped me to enjoy reading more than some of my peers at school. The elementary school that I went to was surrounded by a lot of low income housing and was in a lower socio economic area, so I don't think every family had the same resources my family had to support my early literacy exposure. I began my undergraduate degree in speech and language science and while studying the one thing I found professors drilling into us was the importance of early literacy exposure! Working in school and doing levelled literacy I have seen so many children who are not meeting their reading levels and who hate reading. I partially wonder if this is due to lack of early exposure to literacy. I studied linguistics for the first half of my undergraduate degree and it was drilled into us the importance of reading with young children. Reading is one of my favourite pass times and I am thankful that I have been fortunate enough to have such a positive experi...