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  • Vanguard High School
  • New York, NY
  • More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households

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“I want to read books that I can learn facts from. I want information,” one of my students said to me one day this fall as he looked through the selections in my classroom library. He wanted to read non-fiction, a genre that my library lacks. A bright student, he needed immediate gratification from his reading and struggled with focusing on lengthy narratives. I teach a course called "Reading and Writing Workshop" to 9th graders from a high-needs community. Many students enter our high school reading below their grade level. My high school welcomes students who have struggled in other more traditional public schools in the city. Our school's curricula is quite rigorous, aimed at preparing our graduates for college. Therefore, my fellow literacy teachers and I have a great task in accelerating the reading levels of our students so that they can succeed and make progress in their other coursework.

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“I want to read books that I can learn facts from. I want information,” one of my students said to me one day this fall as he looked through the selections in my classroom library. He wanted to read non-fiction, a genre that my library lacks. A bright student, he needed immediate gratification from his reading and struggled with focusing on lengthy narratives. I teach a course called "Reading and Writing Workshop" to 9th graders from a high-needs community. Many students enter our high school reading below their grade level. My high school welcomes students who have struggled in other more traditional public schools in the city. Our school's curricula is quite rigorous, aimed at preparing our graduates for college. Therefore, my fellow literacy teachers and I have a great task in accelerating the reading levels of our students so that they can succeed and make progress in their other coursework.

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