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  • Sorrento Elementary School
  • Sorrento, FL
  • Half of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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Come in my classroom. Every child has a book...the same book...in their hands and I am standing on a chair reading in character (and loudly) at a particularly dramatic part of the story. I am speaking in dialect to take the part of the main character in the story. The room is silent except for the sound of my voice. The children are transfixed. Reading the right book (A Land Remembered and A Long Walk to Water) has the capacity to open the door of a child's mind to a new understanding of life. My students, in some ways, live very narrow and sheltered lives. I'm seeking to push them outside their day-to-day experience and give them a glimpse of a world they have never seen before. If you love to read, this is your project. By supporting this project you will help shift a child's paradigm into a whole new universe of understanding. Help me blow their minds.

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Come in my classroom. Every child has a book...the same book...in their hands and I am standing on a chair reading in character (and loudly) at a particularly dramatic part of the story. I am speaking in dialect to take the part of the main character in the story. The room is silent except for the sound of my voice. The children are transfixed. Reading the right book (A Land Remembered and A Long Walk to Water) has the capacity to open the door of a child's mind to a new understanding of life. My students, in some ways, live very narrow and sheltered lives. I'm seeking to push them outside their day-to-day experience and give them a glimpse of a world they have never seen before. If you love to read, this is your project. By supporting this project you will help shift a child's paradigm into a whole new universe of understanding. Help me blow their minds.

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