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This “book gap” is easier to erase than the more complex barriers involved in poverty. Richard Allington found that giving children 12 books to take home over the summer resulted in gains equal to summer school for lower-income children, and had twice the impact of summer school for the poorest of those children.Education Week Teacher: The Home Library Effect: Transforming At-Risk Readers
All this without worksheets, extrinsic rewards, or sitting in a stifling classroom in the middle of July.
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