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Summary Of Thank You Mr Falker By Patricia Potacco
In the children’s book Thank You Mr.Falker by Patricia Polacco, Tricha wanted to learn how to read. Except to her “the words looked like weird shapes”, squiggly lines or anything other than letters. That resulted in her getting bullied and teased. When Mr.Falker came in he stopped all kids from bullying Trisha and made sure they would be nice. So he helped her pronounce and read words which turned into sentences leading to her being able to read.

Right off the bat, the little girl is about to turn five and be sent off to kindergarten. She has showed excitement to learn to read because everyone in her family are heavy readers. When she with her grandparents read to her before bed by the fireplace including her mom reads to her too and her brother

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