Every child in New Mexico has the right to learn how to read

Every day, as a first-grade teacher, I change the trajectory of my students’ lives through one simple act: Teaching them how to read.

As a student teacher, I was fortunate to have been trained by a gifted kindergarten teacher as my mentor. She taught me impactful literacy strategies, such as guiding children to generate word lists based on spelling patterns and building up their phonemic awareness skills to help them blend sounds together when reading simple words. Now, it is my turn to set my students up for success, as I welcome 24 tiny children into my classroom every day so I can teach them how to read.

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