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Our students attend a school where 98% of families are economically disadvantaged and 83% are English Language Learners. The challenges that face our students are both linguistic and socioeconomic. Proper literacy instruction is essential to our students' lives so that they may gain social mobility and become productive citizens of the US. Unfortunately, the majority of our students read below grade level and have not experienced a culture of literacy or, quite simply, the joys of reading. However, while these statistics may paint a negative portrait of the condition of our students, they starkly contrast with the potential advantage they have by developing bilingual literacy. Our predominantly first-generation immigrant students' success is precluded by their grasp of Spanish, but particularly, of English. Yet, that very obstacle is easily converted into a strength through engaging literacy instruction that is complemented by culturally and academically relevant classroom literature.

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Our students attend a school where 98% of families are economically disadvantaged and 83% are English Language Learners. The challenges that face our students are both linguistic and socioeconomic. Proper literacy instruction is essential to our students' lives so that they may gain social mobility and become productive citizens of the US. Unfortunately, the majority of our students read below grade level and have not experienced a culture of literacy or, quite simply, the joys of reading. However, while these statistics may paint a negative portrait of the condition of our students, they starkly contrast with the potential advantage they have by developing bilingual literacy. Our predominantly first-generation immigrant students' success is precluded by their grasp of Spanish, but particularly, of English. Yet, that very obstacle is easily converted into a strength through engaging literacy instruction that is complemented by culturally and academically relevant classroom literature.

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