As an educator

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 read. I know in some unfortunate cases the students don't have anyone to read with at home, so as an educator I will be mindful of this and try my best to provide time in class for reading, have volunteers come into the class to read one on one with students and try other strategies to get the students exposed to literacy in their early years.


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