A Second-Chance: Reading Instruction For Teen Mothers
My students need a class set of 31 classic and modern children's books to increase literacy for teen mothers and their children.
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This year, I am teaching a newly-developed reading intervention class for high school students in special education. At our high-need school, literacy rates are low, especially for students in special education. Rates of teenage pregnancy and parenthood, however, seem to grow each year.
Low literacy rates leave most of my students without the basic skills they need to function in adult life. As high school students, they don't have much time to acquire these skills before they will be required to use them. Many of our female students have already been pushed toward adulthood as teenage mothers, and a lifetime of low literacy and decreased exposure to reading threatens to continue on with their children. At a school where we try to encourage students to attend college, it's important that we make reading a natural part of their home culture as well.
By creating a classroom children's library, my project has a two-fold effect. First, it helps to create a safe environment for young parents who are not strong readers themselves. Under the guise of being assigned to read to their children, they will be less likely to feel that these reduced-level materials are too "young" for them. Second, exposure to text and reading from an early age is a critical component of emerging literacy - by increasing their own literacy skills, teen parents can begin to expose their children to classic and modern books that will foster a lifetime love of reading. Students will complete assignments by reading to their own children, helping both teens, infants, and toddlers to become more functional readers and create meaningful family memories around books.
You can help teen mothers and their children learn to love reading together and increase their literacy skills for a lifetime. This project will strengthen our students' classrooms, families, and community in more ways than we can measure. What could be more rewarding than the potentials of lifelong family literacy?
This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.
More than three‑quarters 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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