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by forming collages from the pictures.
The kids enjoy it, Brochu says. Reading about Rappahannock basketball players or their neighbors in the news gives an immediacy to class work that might be missing in books. “Anything that I can do if I can get them reading—any kind of material that they seem to enjoy” Brochu promises to bring. She cites one child who has become obsessed with reading about dinosaurs—in that specialized area his vocabulary exceeds her own. Now he has a disciple in the class whom he has encouraged to read about dinosaurs as well and who comes to him with the hard words. This expert on antidiluvian fauna reports to the kindergarten regularly and is educating the younger children as he increases his vast store of knowledge. “He thinks he’s special,” she says. He is.
Another child liked to read about wrecks, rapes and drugs, Brochu remembers—“the more morbid, the better.” The names on the police blotter became actual characters to him. He devoured crime stories. And that’s what the reading lab is all about.
Brochu works with a to
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