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Literature and the love of books is a big focus in my first-grade classroom. Providing each student with the appropriate leveled reader that is interesting in content and challenging to read has been a challenge. We have a decent classroom library, but with the student reading levels ranging from beginning reader to fluent reader, it is difficult to keep the classroom library relevant to each student. I received a tip from a mentor teacher that there was an on-line program called Epic that has thousands of books that students can read or are read to them. After investigating further, I fell in love with this program and began working on figuring a way to use it in the classroom. The traditional laptop computers, available to us were difficult to put the program on and to implement (i.e. are not user-friendly for the students). iPads made the program user-friendly for the students and allowed her to tailor an individual library from the program for each and every student. The best part of this new reading station in the classroom is that my EL students will participate in the program just like their peers. I will assign books at their level and with plenty of visuals. Students will read the book and/or have it read to them. The selection of books for all my students will be much larger than what I am able to provide in the classroom. Another great advantage of this reading station is that whatever topic we are studying in class, I will put into their individual reading library and/or assign it as a reading assignment to help reinforce the subject in class.

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Literature and the love of books is a big focus in my first-grade classroom. Providing each student with the appropriate leveled reader that is interesting in content and challenging to read has been a challenge. We have a decent classroom library, but with the student reading levels ranging from beginning reader to fluent reader, it is difficult to keep the classroom library relevant to each student. I received a tip from a mentor teacher that there was an on-line program called Epic that has thousands of books that students can read or are read to them. After investigating further, I fell in love with this program and began working on figuring a way to use it in the classroom. The traditional laptop computers, available to us were difficult to put the program on and to implement (i.e. are not user-friendly for the students). iPads made the program user-friendly for the students and allowed her to tailor an individual library from the program for each and every student. The best part of this new reading station in the classroom is that my EL students will participate in the program just like their peers. I will assign books at their level and with plenty of visuals. Students will read the book and/or have it read to them. The selection of books for all my students will be much larger than what I am able to provide in the classroom. Another great advantage of this reading station is that whatever topic we are studying in class, I will put into their individual reading library and/or assign it as a reading assignment to help reinforce the subject in class.

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