I don't remember a whole lot about my schooling, but one thing I remember clearly is the fact that I did not speak much in class.
I was shy, but one day my 3rd Grade teacher read us a bit of Charlotte's Web, and I actually went to the front of the class and asked her if I could bring it home with me.
She looked at me and said, "You can't read at that level". I insisted that I could read, and so she allowed me to take the book home.
I read the book, brought it back, and she said "Prove to me that you read this". So I read a passage to her.
She upped my reading group immediately.
I never looked back.
I do not remember that every happening but, but although I may be wrong.
ReplyDeleteI was going to another school, so you may not have heard the story.
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