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Help me build my classroom library that reflects diversity, varied reading levels, lessons about overcoming challenges, and strong writers! My journey started three years ago when I recognized some students were fake reading in my classroom. How do I get these kids interested in reading? I set up my classroom to reflect a reader's/writer's workshop style of teaching and I completely changed the philosophy of how I teach reading, in particular. My reader's workshop would reflect readers who read with intention and are given choice, collaboration time, and time to reflect. When I looked at my classroom library, it was laughable. It lacked diversity, a range of reading levels, new titles, exciting topics, and volume. Over the past two years, I have worked on building my library to reflect my students' needs, interests and identity. However, I am still coming up short. Our school's demographics are changing. By growing a library that reflects characters that look like my students, it will serve to inspire them.

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Help me build my classroom library that reflects diversity, varied reading levels, lessons about overcoming challenges, and strong writers! My journey started three years ago when I recognized some students were fake reading in my classroom. How do I get these kids interested in reading? I set up my classroom to reflect a reader's/writer's workshop style of teaching and I completely changed the philosophy of how I teach reading, in particular. My reader's workshop would reflect readers who read with intention and are given choice, collaboration time, and time to reflect. When I looked at my classroom library, it was laughable. It lacked diversity, a range of reading levels, new titles, exciting topics, and volume. Over the past two years, I have worked on building my library to reflect my students' needs, interests and identity. However, I am still coming up short. Our school's demographics are changing. By growing a library that reflects characters that look like my students, it will serve to inspire them.

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