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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Students will take home high-quality, interesting, and leveled books to take home every week (in a small canvas bag). We will engage families with a Book Bag Launch Party in which we invite all of our students’ parents to learn about reading strategies they can use at home. At this time, we will invite parents and students to decorate their book bags together to build excitement about the project. All students will receive a book bag with three new books each week. Children will choose 2-3 books to take home at the end of the school year. Students will take home books that they can read independently. Books will exchange the books as students achieve new reading levels. Students would benefit from taking books home because having at-level literature will help them improve their reading fluency and comprehension.
According to Education Testing Service’s 1999 article America’s Smallest School: The Family, there is a direct correlation between access to reading materials at home and a student’s reading proficiency in school. The National Education Association, as well as the United States Department of Education, echo the importance of reading for pleasure and outside of school; it is beyond dispute that students experience better educational outcomes the more they read, and access to literature at home is a critical part of students reading more. According to research by America’s Promise Alliance, a national organization focused on supporting students, “children who aren’t reading proficiently by fourth grade are four times more likely to drop out by high school.” Getting parental support and teaching parents simple strategies that they can practice at home with their readers will give students more resources to practice important reading skills at home.
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Students will take home high-quality, interesting, and leveled books to take home every week (in a small canvas bag). We will engage families with a Book Bag Launch Party in which we invite all of our students’ parents to learn about reading strategies they can use at home. At this time, we will invite parents and students to decorate their book bags together to build excitement about the project. All students will receive a book bag with three new books each week. Children will choose 2-3 books to take home at the end of the school year. Students will take home books that they can read independently. Books will exchange the books as students achieve new reading levels. Students would benefit from taking books home because having at-level literature will help them improve their reading fluency and comprehension.
According to Education Testing Service’s 1999 article America’s Smallest School: The Family, there is a direct correlation between access to reading materials at home and a student’s reading proficiency in school. The National Education Association, as well as the United States Department of Education, echo the importance of reading for pleasure and outside of school; it is beyond dispute that students experience better educational outcomes the more they read, and access to literature at home is a critical part of students reading more. According to research by America’s Promise Alliance, a national organization focused on supporting students, “children who aren’t reading proficiently by fourth grade are four times more likely to drop out by high school.” Getting parental support and teaching parents simple strategies that they can practice at home with their readers will give students more resources to practice important reading skills at home.