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These phonics based, high interest, low readability books will give my growing readers access to text that is exciting and relevant. There are students in my classroom who are struggling or beginning readers and find it difficult to stay engaged with books at their independent reading level. They tell me the books at the lower reading levels are boring or that they are sick of reading about the same characters. These new texts contain subjects that are appropriate for their interest level and emphasize the most common words in English (sight words). By increasing exposure to these words, students increase their chances of learning them, and also their ability to read and comprehend more complex sentences. These books will also benefit our ELL students who are learning to be proficient readers. It's so very important to keep my students motivated to read so that they get in quality independent reading time each day!

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These phonics based, high interest, low readability books will give my growing readers access to text that is exciting and relevant. There are students in my classroom who are struggling or beginning readers and find it difficult to stay engaged with books at their independent reading level. They tell me the books at the lower reading levels are boring or that they are sick of reading about the same characters. These new texts contain subjects that are appropriate for their interest level and emphasize the most common words in English (sight words). By increasing exposure to these words, students increase their chances of learning them, and also their ability to read and comprehend more complex sentences. These books will also benefit our ELL students who are learning to be proficient readers. It's so very important to keep my students motivated to read so that they get in quality independent reading time each day!

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