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Love to read!
By Barb

Congrats to you for inspiring those kids to read!

As a kid, and still now as an adult, I LOVED to read. I think I went to the library several times a week as a child, always left with a stack of books and was ready for
more a few days later.
I am now a special ed teacher of very low functioning students with autism. There are times where I really wish my students understood the value of a book more...but then my heart soars when I realize they have learned already....
I have one who is just beginning to read and will sit and listen to books on tape and follow along in the book. That's always his first

choice of activity to do. He chooses that over a computer game even! Another student would sit and listen and look at a book all day if you'd do the same. and another tries to make up her own story as she looks at the pictures. I even have my lowest student seeming to take a random interest in books. Every once in a while, I'll see her pick up a picture book and leaf through the pages, (the books even right side up,) and slowly page through the story. I can only dream of what she's thinking as she does that as she cannot talk, but knowing that she's even looking at the book and not just flapping it is a big triumph for me. :-)

Thanks for giving me the chance to share as well!