The GiftAuthor(s): Ellen BarrettSource: The Reading Teacher, Vol. 56, No. 6 (Mar., 2003), p. 569Published by: Wiley on behalf of the International Reading AssociationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20205248 .

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The gift Ellen Barrett

What a precious gift So many of us have To pick up the paper To know, to understand

What is happening in the world, What the weather will be. Can you imagine If we couldn't read?

We take for granted The skill we have learned And don't stop to think about Our lives without words. Others struggle daily To try and comprehend The little message on the store window:

Sorry, we're closed. Please come again.

The next time we complain Of the difficulties in life?

Stop and remember We don't have to think twice.

When we open our books The letters make sense.

We see this is a paragraph And this, a sentence.

So, what can we do

To help them read? Give them the skills So they will succeed.

Barrett is a graduate student in education at Northern Illinois

University in DeKalb, Illinois, USA.

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2001, Special Reading Teacher, St. Charles Parish School,

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