Creating Background Knowledge for Emerging Readers
My students need 8 sets of biographies and nonfiction texts in order to create background knowledge to further their literary progress.
FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Gitman's classroom raised $553
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.
Preparing children for "REAL" reading! Informational texts to help students reach literary success!
It is not enough that children become proficient readers of fiction. Although it is satisfying and engaging, it fails to prepare children for the informational texts they read more frequently later in there schooling and life. Children need the opportunity to explore areas that might interest them, while simultaneously providing background knowledge to improve their reading, writing and thinking.
By providing more informational texts, my students will be more exposed which in turn will guide them more to read these books. Currently my classroom library consists of mostly fiction texts. My students will fall in love with reading and learn literary skills that are lacking in so many classrooms.
Our school is over 70% minority, where the students have very little life experience. Please help me to expose our students to informational texts.
Nearly all students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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