Reading opens the world up for students. A wide variety of genres, themes, and characters helps students learn more about their world, homes, families, traditions, and selves.
Good texts help good readers to become better readers and better writers. By surrounding our students with award-winning books, we offer them the opportunity to explore texts, perspectives, and situations. Bishop (1990) described books as windows, ways to peek into another world to catch a glimpse of something other than ourselves. Those windows, she claimed, can function as glass doors, opening a whole new world of experiences. And, like windows, if the lighting is right, those books can act like mirrors for our students.
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Reading opens the world up for students. A wide variety of genres, themes, and characters helps students learn more about their world, homes, families, traditions, and selves.
Good texts help good readers to become better readers and better writers. By surrounding our students with award-winning books, we offer them the opportunity to explore texts, perspectives, and situations. Bishop (1990) described books as windows, ways to peek into another world to catch a glimpse of something other than ourselves. Those windows, she claimed, can function as glass doors, opening a whole new world of experiences. And, like windows, if the lighting is right, those books can act like mirrors for our students.
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