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That's where upperclassmen in this K-8 Title I school are helping much younger students get excited about reading."Books are like a way to find an escape from the real world or to express your emotions sometimes. But other times, to me books are like, a way to read how people are."She is also a cheerleader and among a select few chosen to be on the Superintendent's Student Council in the Pendergast Elementary School District telling ABC15,"it's for the whole district.
"When I read to them, sometimes they're not paying attention. But when they are and they actually understand it's like, you have like a little spark that you see in their eyes," Cedillo says. Cedillo shares,"Seeing them feel important, and finding out that they could actually catch up with their grade level, knowing that they feel smarter, and, like, better, and embracing that is...amazing."
The school's principal, Marisa Barrio says,"We really want to just say how much these books would mean to our students, again, being in households that don't necessarily have books for the students just to go and read."
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