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  • Patterson Elementary School
  • Houston, TX
  • Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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My kiddos are passionate, curious, bright, and excited third graders from a high poverty neighborhood in Houston. You couldn't imagine how excited they are to learn about making predictions while reading or discovering what unfamiliar words mean through context clues. But most don't have the resources to truly practice their skills and engage with a book. Many speak English as a second language. Most come from homes in poverty. They face many obstacles but the most unavoidable one is the physical lack of literature in their lives. Some simply don't have books at home. Many don't have a variety of books to pick from. In our classroom itself, there is a only one bucket of books that are not always on-level or of interest to students.

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My kiddos are passionate, curious, bright, and excited third graders from a high poverty neighborhood in Houston. You couldn't imagine how excited they are to learn about making predictions while reading or discovering what unfamiliar words mean through context clues. But most don't have the resources to truly practice their skills and engage with a book. Many speak English as a second language. Most come from homes in poverty. They face many obstacles but the most unavoidable one is the physical lack of literature in their lives. Some simply don't have books at home. Many don't have a variety of books to pick from. In our classroom itself, there is a only one bucket of books that are not always on-level or of interest to students.

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