The document summarizes Juanita Simms' experience participating in an Upward Bound Reading Circle program at Joan Walker Elementary School. The Reading Circle targeted 1st grade students with learning disabilities and paired them with higher-level 2nd grade readers. Over six weeks, Simms used guided reading techniques like diagnostic evaluation, instruction, and assessment to improve the reading comprehension, vocabulary, and fluency of the students. She found the experience rewarding and felt it reinforced her choice to become a teacher.