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I am a reading specialist in a public school for 5th and 6th graders. Currently, many of my students come from Myanmar. Before arriving in the U.S., these children spoke a language called Zomi which is based on a different alphabet than ours. Some of them spent a long time in refugee camps, were malnourished, or had a limited exposure to education of any kind. As a whole, these students are extremely motivated to learn. They want to succeed in school and will work very hard in order to do so. I also work with an other group of children who were born and raised in the U.S., yet they struggle in school nearly as much as the new immigrants. These are students who come from from poverty, have chaotic and stressful home lives, speak a second language at home, have families that do not know how to support education, and/or have learning disabilities that are yet to be determined. These students also want to succeed in school, but they do not know how to achieve this success.

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I am a reading specialist in a public school for 5th and 6th graders. Currently, many of my students come from Myanmar. Before arriving in the U.S., these children spoke a language called Zomi which is based on a different alphabet than ours. Some of them spent a long time in refugee camps, were malnourished, or had a limited exposure to education of any kind. As a whole, these students are extremely motivated to learn. They want to succeed in school and will work very hard in order to do so. I also work with an other group of children who were born and raised in the U.S., yet they struggle in school nearly as much as the new immigrants. These are students who come from from poverty, have chaotic and stressful home lives, speak a second language at home, have families that do not know how to support education, and/or have learning disabilities that are yet to be determined. These students also want to succeed in school, but they do not know how to achieve this success.

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