My students need 20 leveled readers for daily reading instruction.
$168 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 learning to read. The process is not a mystery to them: They know that it takes daily practice. Many students' favorite part of the day is coming to the "reading group" their daily, small-group instruction in reading.
I teach kindergarten and first grade as I stay with the students for two years at an urban elementary school.
90% of the students are low-income, and 90% are English language learners. Most have not been to preschool, so I am their first exposure to formal education.
My Project
Each day, I meet with four or five small groups of children to teach them the process and pleasure of reading. They meet me at my reading table, excited to see the book they will be learning that day and practicing over the next weeks.
After the lesson, each student reads a copy of the book provided, which has been selected specifically because it is at these students' reading level. They are not "pretend" reading nor are they mumbling along as others read. Each student is reading, while getting guidance from me. It is a powerful and effective format to teach reading, and each student leaves the table knowing that they are a reader.
Now their job is to practice this book (and the other books from previous meetings) over the next few weeks to prepare themselves for the more difficult books to come. As you can imagine, the classroom must have multiple copies of books at all different levels of difficulty. We need four sets of leveled readers.
My students love to read because they truly believe that they are readers.
From the first day of instruction, they are successful because books have been carefully selected to match their reading skills and to push them to grow. Your donation will ensure that a student never says "I don't know how."
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