How Poverty Affects Children

Starting a new school year has always been an exciting time. Buying new clothes and new school supplies, but for some kids it's a dreadful time. There is “more than sixteen million children in the United States and 22% live in families below the poverty line (columbia university).This affects the children mentally, socially, and emotionally. A normal child gets up in the morning has a healthy breakfast, clean with an abundance of clothes, and a lunch or lunch money. On the other hand a child living below the poverty line has to get up and eat whatever they can find, then put on whatever clothes they have. This all goes on to affect the way a child learns and reacts to situations, this proves that poverty affects the way a child learns and behaves during the school day. During the school …show more content…
Teachers should help these students by incorporating lesson plans that work on the material that these kids aren't succeeding in. Based on research done by many platforms students who live in underprivileged homes often fall behind in reading and language development. “Children who live in poverty often come to school more behind their more affluent peers in terms of literacy and language development (Parette William).” low income parents can't buy their children books to have at home and read for 30 minutes each night their fore not only do the kids fall behind on learning to read and read fluently while comprehending but their vocabulary takes a hit as well. Usually most of our vocabulary come from what we hear and what we read if the child is always alone and doesn’t have books to read at home he or she won’t be learning new vocabulary alongside their classmates therefore falling behind when it comes to test scores. By incorporating reading time or language activities into the classroom the children who really need it will get the practice they need and are able to get help from peers and teachers if