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Create a classroom library with books appropriate for all students. Enlarge the collection as student interests grow. House books in wide shelves face out with the colorful jackets showing. Separate these books from classroom texts and other resources.
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Read aloud and tell personal stories to children on a day-to-day basis. Allow students to select books to be read.
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Provide time for independent and private reading.
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Have each child acquire a public library card in his name.
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Introduce children to the community bookmobile.
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Visit a bookstore.
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Study authors of children’s books.
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Supplement the classroom library with magazines, comics, and activity books.
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Serve as an example for students by reading newspapers, magazines, and books in their presence, and by pointing out items of interest to them from time to time.
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Work with school officials to provide excellent libraries for all schools in the community.
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