Why can't she remember that?

"Why can't she remember that?" The importance of storybook reading in a multilingual, multicultural classrooms by Terry Meier is a reading that focuses on the encounters teachers face every year with having young students who have little book reading expierences, and do not have gardens who read to them either.  The reading gave me many situations and solutions for normal classroom experiences. For instance when the bilingual prekindergarten Gabriela spoke her mind about how did not remember the answers to the questions she has previously asked in the past to the students, while reading i finally realized why the article was called " Why can't she remember that". Gabriela didn't answer the teacher's question when she asked how many mittens there were, therefore the teacher assumed that she did not know the answer and that she may need more help in the english language vocabulary department. Little did the teacher know that Gabriela did know the answer she just didnt understand why the teacher was asking it again, in Gabriela's house the teacher looked like she was the one who needed extra help.  My connection to this story would be when Cherrie Moraga (1983) described her earliest experience of the power of language when she remembered her mother and her paints gossiping and laughing iin spanish and in english n the kitchen drinking "cerveza". I also had the exact experience as a child, the stories i would hear and sometimes be present for while sitting on one of my aunts laps, would be about our family members , friends, boyfriends of theirs or ex's. Although the conversations were educational they the importance of those oral stories will forever be in my memory. Growing up , my mom decided to go back to school when her and my father divorced when i was about 3 years old. She went to CCRI and graduated with her associates degree. My mom got really involved with certain departments on campus like the testing and advising center, she even worked there as student help. She now has been working for the testing center and is the yea dog the testing department for CLEP test and ACT exams and ect. My mom may not have had time to read me story books when I was in kindergarten or pre k but Just like Gabriela, I still understood when teachers would repeat themselves and reread certain books and ask questions that they already had asked the first and second time. Thankfully my teacher didn't do that often, only when a book was chosen yb popular demand by the class for story time. After reading this story i think about how maybe if my mom did enforce books and set time aside to read to me or to make me read a certain amount of time a day i would maybe enjoy reading a little more but now I am in college and reading is a huge part of most class assignments. I hope that when i become a spanish teacher i will be helpful to students who may not have the support at home to enforce reading as much as they should. Reading only makes you a better person, it shows different verities of vocabulary that aren't used in the daily conversation, i even read certain words here that i had never seen before, for example ;Ubiquitous?