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Literature and reading are the foundations of learning. However, a child who is not interested in a book will not attempt to read if not prompted to do so. As teachers, we are consistently encouraging students to engage in reading whilst actively discovering ways to get them excited about it. However, many students have turned away from reading simply because they do not see themselves in the books that they read. In 2021 Texas schools are immensely diverse. Classrooms are filled with students of different cultural and familial backgrounds, skin colors, hair types, religious beliefs, and even disabilities. The student mind is very inquisitive and notices these differences, and, as a result, has questions about it. But this inquisitiveness does not stop with their fellow students. They look for it in literature. Connections are key to enjoying books, and in such a diverse classroom, students are better able to enjoy reading when reading books containing characters that resemble them or characters that they can connect to on a personal level. My name is Jarrell Comeaux and I present my project: I See Me. I’ve compiled a list of recent and relevant children’s books that highlight and discuss differences amongst people in storytelling and narrative literary forms. These books were carefully arranged to not only show diversity through ethnic culture, but also diversity through feelings, interests, disabilities, gender, and familial homes. I wish to provide books to the first-grade classroom that highlight and celebrate the diversity that students can relate to. I believe that by providing representation through literature students will have increased enthusiasm for reading as well as a higher sense of self.

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Literature and reading are the foundations of learning. However, a child who is not interested in a book will not attempt to read if not prompted to do so. As teachers, we are consistently encouraging students to engage in reading whilst actively discovering ways to get them excited about it. However, many students have turned away from reading simply because they do not see themselves in the books that they read. In 2021 Texas schools are immensely diverse. Classrooms are filled with students of different cultural and familial backgrounds, skin colors, hair types, religious beliefs, and even disabilities. The student mind is very inquisitive and notices these differences, and, as a result, has questions about it. But this inquisitiveness does not stop with their fellow students. They look for it in literature. Connections are key to enjoying books, and in such a diverse classroom, students are better able to enjoy reading when reading books containing characters that resemble them or characters that they can connect to on a personal level. My name is Jarrell Comeaux and I present my project: I See Me. I’ve compiled a list of recent and relevant children’s books that highlight and discuss differences amongst people in storytelling and narrative literary forms. These books were carefully arranged to not only show diversity through ethnic culture, but also diversity through feelings, interests, disabilities, gender, and familial homes. I wish to provide books to the first-grade classroom that highlight and celebrate the diversity that students can relate to. I believe that by providing representation through literature students will have increased enthusiasm for reading as well as a higher sense of self.

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