Nearly all students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education.
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My students absolutely love to read but the saddest thing is our school is so poor we have no money to buy any books. Each child in my classroom has a special book bag. Two times a week they go "Book Shopping" for their own level books in our bins. Then, they find a comfortable place in our room to sit and read. Our biggest obstacle is our different level bins do not have enough books for all the students.
Reading one book is like eating one potato chip! Our bins need to be filled with exciting and engaging books like the ones I picked out for this project. Research indicates if students are not successful readers by the end of second grade, they will never be able to catch up. I want my students to become the strongest readers they can be.
Exposing children to high quality literature, written by wonderful authors and with amazing illustrations is another important aspect of teaching children to be successful life-long readers. As part of this project I also ordered books I can read aloud to the students. Books written by famous authors like Kevin Henkes and Jan Brett.
I can not begin to express how excited seeing and reading new books makes my students. There is an old saying, "A Book is a Gift you can open again and again" and this proves to be so true for all my students.
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My students absolutely love to read but the saddest thing is our school is so poor we have no money to buy any books. Each child in my classroom has a special book bag. Two times a week they go "Book Shopping" for their own level books in our bins. Then, they find a comfortable place in our room to sit and read. Our biggest obstacle is our different level bins do not have enough books for all the students.
Reading one book is like eating one potato chip! Our bins need to be filled with exciting and engaging books like the ones I picked out for this project. Research indicates if students are not successful readers by the end of second grade, they will never be able to catch up. I want my students to become the strongest readers they can be.
Exposing children to high quality literature, written by wonderful authors and with amazing illustrations is another important aspect of teaching children to be successful life-long readers. As part of this project I also ordered books I can read aloud to the students. Books written by famous authors like Kevin Henkes and Jan Brett.
I can not begin to express how excited seeing and reading new books makes my students. There is an old saying, "A Book is a Gift you can open again and again" and this proves to be so true for all my students.