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oyster  ·  2743 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: My first week trying to teach students to read

I generally don't have a lot of concrete memories from being that young but I remember super well the teacher who taught me how to read. We read the same book ( Nina Nina Ballerina ) so many times and at the end of it she let me have the book since it was originally her daughter's who was now much older. I could still tell you the whole story of that book and I didn't even realize until like high school that they didn't pull everybody aside to teach them how to read.

I wasn't a big reader after that anyways but learning how to read was still a memory I cherished. So I'm sure it tries your patience at times but you're probably giving children a memory they will cherish for a long time which is pretty cool.





korey  ·  2743 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think so also. I remember my teachers vividly, and their influence is one of my main motivations...it makes me happy to think that the work I'm doing can influence children in the same way it motivated me, or you