My students need a listening center with read-along books to help improve their listening and comprehension skills.
$536 goal
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
My students love listening to reading! Audio books are an important introduction to listening, a skill my kindergarten students need to master to learn to read. They are eager to start reading. They know that they must be at a reading level D to be ready for 1st grade!
My students are the definition of an ideal person.
They exemplify the morals and characteristics that every individual should possess. My students are vibrant, eager, mature, and respectful. They are kind to one another; they love each other, and most importantly they love school. They are unaware that we are at a low-income school and that resources are limited. This is why I am requesting a listening center. My students need to strengthen their listening skills to learn to read. If they do not build a strong foundation in reading, the rest of their academic career will be unstable. I do not want this to be a reality for my students who are already vulnerable to failing simply because of their zip code.
My Project
Every morning we chant, "I am intelligent, I am important, I will learn, I will change the world!" I hope that they internalize these words and they go out and change the world by attending college. Before this is a reality, my students need to learn to read. For this to be true in my classroom, a listening center would be incorporated into our daily center routines. My students are divided into groups of three. They spend fifteen minutes in a center for a total of three centers per day. Each group will use the listening center for a maximum of 15 minutes per day. This will provide my students with the wonderful opportunity to hear their favorite stories read aloud over and over again. The more they listen, the greater likelihood that they will learn vocabulary words which is a skill my students struggle with.
Hearing a book on tape will help my students see how words on a page come to life in a fluid and expressive way.
A listening center will also help them focus on the sounds of words read without interruptions and will provide a model for fluent reading. Narrators normally tell stories in silly voices and with dramatic enhancements. Therefore, books are seen as a source of pleasure versus a skill. A listening center will without a doubt help us reach our goal of being first grade ready.
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