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It's no secret that students just do not want to read. In fact, in our country the senior level Advanced Placement Literature test just released their scores. For the second year in a row, the scores have dropped. Only "47% had a 3 or higher." This continuous drop is showing us, teachers of lower grades, one thing: students are not reading. They are bored. They lack stamina. Simply put: they hate reading. So where do I begin? As a teacher at the starting line, I'm here to motivate, encourage, and cheer on my students to become lifelong readers. I need to make reading relevant for them using a fresh new approach: using books that will engage them and keep their interest. I want to incorporate mini book clubs in class for kids to discuss these stories with each other. I want them to grow through my personal nudging into novels they never thought they'd read. I want to connect ideas with books they're interested in what is happening in our world. I want them to become excited with their novels and want to explore more. Titles such as "All American Boys" in which a young African American boy questions his identity, or "Henrietta Lacks" whose cells have helped create the polio vaccine but yet her family is on welfare, or Kwame Alexander novels whose words float off the page and mesmerize even the most reluctant reader, or even John Green novels (the modern John Hughes of teens) who help teens find their identity are all stories that can change the apathy towards reading. Literacy is a growing problem in our country. I just want to be at the finish line celebrating their realization of how "reading is the oxygen that has made them and will make them successful!"

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It's no secret that students just do not want to read. In fact, in our country the senior level Advanced Placement Literature test just released their scores. For the second year in a row, the scores have dropped. Only "47% had a 3 or higher." This continuous drop is showing us, teachers of lower grades, one thing: students are not reading. They are bored. They lack stamina. Simply put: they hate reading. So where do I begin? As a teacher at the starting line, I'm here to motivate, encourage, and cheer on my students to become lifelong readers. I need to make reading relevant for them using a fresh new approach: using books that will engage them and keep their interest. I want to incorporate mini book clubs in class for kids to discuss these stories with each other. I want them to grow through my personal nudging into novels they never thought they'd read. I want to connect ideas with books they're interested in what is happening in our world. I want them to become excited with their novels and want to explore more. Titles such as "All American Boys" in which a young African American boy questions his identity, or "Henrietta Lacks" whose cells have helped create the polio vaccine but yet her family is on welfare, or Kwame Alexander novels whose words float off the page and mesmerize even the most reluctant reader, or even John Green novels (the modern John Hughes of teens) who help teens find their identity are all stories that can change the apathy towards reading. Literacy is a growing problem in our country. I just want to be at the finish line celebrating their realization of how "reading is the oxygen that has made them and will make them successful!"

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