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I hope to inspire my students to expand their knowledge, increase their vocabulary, and hopefully become life-long readers by simply picking up a book within our classroom library. As a new teacher, resources are slim, but our students are still our number one priority. My students come from a low-income neighborhood, where reading may not be fostered within their household. My goal is to have a classroom library that inspires my students to find magic between then pages of a simple book. My hopes are that my classroom library will be a place that my students can really enjoy—I will read on the carpet to them daily, allow them to complete work there, choose books to read independently, and take pride in displaying each completed book! By being granted new books, my students will be taught responsibility as they will treat the library with love and care, the books with complete respect, and show gratitude for the opportunity and ability to be able to read and be read to. With these new books, my students will be able to choose from a variety of books, at multiple levels, with the same purpose...creating life-long readers!

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I hope to inspire my students to expand their knowledge, increase their vocabulary, and hopefully become life-long readers by simply picking up a book within our classroom library. As a new teacher, resources are slim, but our students are still our number one priority. My students come from a low-income neighborhood, where reading may not be fostered within their household. My goal is to have a classroom library that inspires my students to find magic between then pages of a simple book. My hopes are that my classroom library will be a place that my students can really enjoy—I will read on the carpet to them daily, allow them to complete work there, choose books to read independently, and take pride in displaying each completed book! By being granted new books, my students will be taught responsibility as they will treat the library with love and care, the books with complete respect, and show gratitude for the opportunity and ability to be able to read and be read to. With these new books, my students will be able to choose from a variety of books, at multiple levels, with the same purpose...creating life-long readers!

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