Nearly all students from low‑income households
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In the next couple of weeks, I will have the privilege of teaching great minds. As a future classroom teacher, I want to make sure that all of my students' academic needs are met. Reading is a crucial part of that process.
During my first year, I would love to build a classroom library. If possible, I would love to have a wide variety of books that awaken my students' love for reading. I want to create a space where students are free to escape into a world of endless possibilities.
The books were selected to help fill the classroom library. It is important that students not only read for academic purposes, but to also build a joy for reading. I chose books that they would find interesting as well as some that are more challenging. The labels will be use to organize the library by guided reading levels. Students will have an easier time find books on their level. The pencils, highlighters, and tabs are materials that students will use as they close read text and apply strategies they learn throughout the year. The post it chart paper will allow for students to see those strategies around the classroom as we learn about reading strategies. My students will be able to reference those anchor charts when they need them. Lastly, the index cards will be used to help build vocabulary. Students will learn different Latin/Greek roots. The purpose of the index cards and metal rings is to help keep the roots they learn organized, and provide them with a resource they can use over and over again until they internalize the meaning of each root. Students are then able to make meaning of unknown words as they come across them.
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In the next couple of weeks, I will have the privilege of teaching great minds. As a future classroom teacher, I want to make sure that all of my students' academic needs are met. Reading is a crucial part of that process.
During my first year, I would love to build a classroom library. If possible, I would love to have a wide variety of books that awaken my students' love for reading. I want to create a space where students are free to escape into a world of endless possibilities.
The books were selected to help fill the classroom library. It is important that students not only read for academic purposes, but to also build a joy for reading. I chose books that they would find interesting as well as some that are more challenging. The labels will be use to organize the library by guided reading levels. Students will have an easier time find books on their level. The pencils, highlighters, and tabs are materials that students will use as they close read text and apply strategies they learn throughout the year. The post it chart paper will allow for students to see those strategies around the classroom as we learn about reading strategies. My students will be able to reference those anchor charts when they need them. Lastly, the index cards will be used to help build vocabulary. Students will learn different Latin/Greek roots. The purpose of the index cards and metal rings is to help keep the roots they learn organized, and provide them with a resource they can use over and over again until they internalize the meaning of each root. Students are then able to make meaning of unknown words as they come across them.