A 10-year-old who wrote a poem about dyslexia has stunned the internet with her words – and people are calling for her work to be published.
Teacher Jane Broadis said her Year 6 class were learning about poems that could be read both backwards and forwards to produce a different meaning.
They were all asked to write their own, and she was stunned by a pupil who chose to write about dyslexia.
“Please share,” Broadis tweeted. “I would love her work to be appreciated further afield. I wonder if it could even find a publisher?”
Broadis’ tweet had nearly 90,000 likes, and 27,000 retweets in a single day and people have been touched by the 10-year-old’s words.
Others are trying to help the teacher get the poem published.
Even kids’ presenters Dick and Dom have got involved:
The poem in full:
Dyslexia
I am stupid.
Nobody would ever say
I have a talent for words
I was meant to be great.
That is wrong
I am a failure.
Nobody could ever convince me to think that
I can make it in life.
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