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Excellence: Story 8 – Gifts My Mother Gave Me

By Regie Routman

Literacy Essentials by Regie Routman contains some wonderfully personal stories from the author's own lived experience as a devoted family member, friend, and educator. In this series, Regie narrates each of these stories and, in doing so, invites us to reflect on our own literacy and learning lives.

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Through poetry writing, the author figures out—and finally appreciates– the intangible but enduring gifts her mother, who died young, left her.