My students come from all backgrounds and are in a high-poverty, rural school district. They have all different experiences and background knowledge. My students vary in their reading ability. We have implemented a reading workshop curriculum that promotes individual instruction. This requires a lot of books to give the students what they need.
Individual instruction is crucial to a student's understanding of reading.
My students are more engaged when they are learning with books they choose themselves. They have a better understanding of reading this way. Reading is very important to my students' life-long education. The foundation they receive in elementary school will set the stage for their reading education throughout life.
My Project
Reading Workshop helps grow readers by giving them choice in their reading and helping them choose just-right books. It also allows for individualized instruction by letting me work with each student to help them improve their reading skills.
Student choice of books is one of the most important things for students to grow as readers.
Students will read more books when they get to choose their own books that are just right for them. These books will give my students more choices in books they can read. They go through so many books and need a large variety to choose from.
Half of 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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