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Hi-Line Living - Planting seeds for reading on the Hi-Line

Lorraine Verploegen tells parents they are their child's first teachers.

"A lot of parents get nervous about that and say 'well I am not a teacher,'" Verploegen said, but added that every time a parent talks to their child they are teaching them something.

A retired special education teacher, Verploegen started the work that led to the formation of Plant a Seed ... READ!, in the mid-1990s, as a way to build language and other skills in children before they enter kindergarten.

"What I was noticing as a special education teacher and a reading specialist was that the reason why many of the...

 

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