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- Title
View From the Chalkboard.
- Authors
Elvin, Julie
- Abstract
The author discusses the benefits of linking literacy education with community service projects for elementary school children. The students in a second grade classroom where the author taught are described, particularly their socioeconomic status. The author took her students to a local retirement home to visit with the residents and found that many of them enjoyed the experience. It is noted that some of the residents were touched by the visits and by the handmade cards that the students brought for them. The experience, the author concludes, taught the students about compassion.
- Subjects
SERVICE learning; SCHOOL children; CHILDREN &; older people; OLDER people; COMPASSION; SECOND grade (Education)
- Publication
Reading Teacher, 2011, Vol 64, Issue 7, p542
- ISSN
0034-0561
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1598/RT.64.7.10