I used to always think that teachers had to follow exactly the lessons on the textbooks. I used to think that the students had to learn exactly the information on the textbooks. However as I got older I realized that using different texts increases the quality of the lesson. I see textbooks as boring books with a plenty of information that I may not even need. Textbooks sometimes also make it hard for the students to understand the lesson and it is even harder for them to make connections.
Trade books are of great importance in a class. Students need to have available to them, to help them understand the lesson and for them to also familiarize themselves with different types of texts. As a teacher I want to be able to provide to my students these sources. That is why I am already starting to build my class library. I collect all different types of books and different types of texts to use in my classroom.
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