My mother read me to sleep. As I got older, community members read to me for entertainment. When I started school I was asked to read in order to learn facts. I continued to use books and the space of a library as a means to shape my opinions and personality. Self-identity is tied to the media we take in, and a community library plays a huge part in that. Every school that you visit will have a library for the kids to develop their reading and interests. University has provided a new type of text to take in, but it had been lost to me that we can go back and still find value from resources that were used when we were younger.
The library introduced us to a whole world of physical and online sources that will transform how we teach in the classroom. I have never felt so excited to run my fingers down the bindings of stories that were once my greatest friends and spin my thoughts on how I would introduce students to them.
I was able to find so many stories that I had ideas and plans for, and slowly started to understand the overwhelming and wonderful life of a Librarian. Working on my lesson plan about the book ‘The Stinky Cheeseman’ has been so fun and exciting and I can not wait to move forward.
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