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  • Elementary School 8
  • Clifton, NJ
  • More than a third of students from low‑income households

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Life is very busy for most of our students and parents. It is hard to find time to work on literacy at home in a fun way between the bustle of extracurricular activities, homework and family responsibilities. Our program, Bookflix, entails creating bundles of books alongside their respective film adaptations and inviting our students to borrow them from the school library. These will include popular, thought-provoking stories such as Wonder, Where the Wild Things Are, Matilda, Beezus and Ramona and Because of Winn-Dixie. This project will allow parents to spend time reading with their children and then create a fun bonding experience as they watch the movie together after finishing the book. In addition to the books and DVDs, we will also include discussion questions with each Bookflix bundle. We will encourage our parents to discuss the questions with their children as they read and then hold a Family Movie Night to celebrate finishing the book together. We can't wait to see our families enjoy Bookflix once our Donor's Choose project is successful!

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Life is very busy for most of our students and parents. It is hard to find time to work on literacy at home in a fun way between the bustle of extracurricular activities, homework and family responsibilities. Our program, Bookflix, entails creating bundles of books alongside their respective film adaptations and inviting our students to borrow them from the school library. These will include popular, thought-provoking stories such as Wonder, Where the Wild Things Are, Matilda, Beezus and Ramona and Because of Winn-Dixie. This project will allow parents to spend time reading with their children and then create a fun bonding experience as they watch the movie together after finishing the book. In addition to the books and DVDs, we will also include discussion questions with each Bookflix bundle. We will encourage our parents to discuss the questions with their children as they read and then hold a Family Movie Night to celebrate finishing the book together. We can't wait to see our families enjoy Bookflix once our Donor's Choose project is successful!

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