More than half of 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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Our English Department has been confronting a problem over the past few years: though we have done a good job of helping students develop the skills that they need in order to succeed as readers and writers at the college level, we haven't done enough to foster students' love of reading. Sure, students can annotate a textbook and write an accurate, insightful analysis of a New York Times op-ed, but do they seek out books that they love? Do they spend time reading when they aren't required to?
Our students arrive at high school as avid readers; we want to make sure that they leave that way too. To that end, I've put together a selection of books that a diverse group of kids from the South Side of Chicago might enjoy. It's a combination of books that students have read and recommended and books that are recommended by other teachers and library associations. I look forward to watching students browse through these on my classroom shelf—it really changes the feel of a classroom to fill it with books that kids love. And it can change a person's life to become a committed reader in high school.
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Our English Department has been confronting a problem over the past few years: though we have done a good job of helping students develop the skills that they need in order to succeed as readers and writers at the college level, we haven't done enough to foster students' love of reading. Sure, students can annotate a textbook and write an accurate, insightful analysis of a New York Times op-ed, but do they seek out books that they love? Do they spend time reading when they aren't required to?
Our students arrive at high school as avid readers; we want to make sure that they leave that way too. To that end, I've put together a selection of books that a diverse group of kids from the South Side of Chicago might enjoy. It's a combination of books that students have read and recommended and books that are recommended by other teachers and library associations. I look forward to watching students browse through these on my classroom shelf—it really changes the feel of a classroom to fill it with books that kids love. And it can change a person's life to become a committed reader in high school.