An Enticing Collection from Reading Rainbow, Part I.
My students need 72 book titles featured on the PBS series The Reading Rainbow.
FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Ekins's classroom raised $800
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.
Greetings! I am a second year, 2nd grade teacher in a Title 1 school...that means that my students come from low socio-economic households.
Despite these challenges, the students come to school each day, eager to learn and take charge of their education. I believe in empowering my students and giving them thrilling and motivating educational experiences that simultaneously improve their reading skills.
We have a classroom library the students use to check-out books to read at home and at school. Our library needs to be filled with exciting and engaging fiction and non-fiction text!
Having a class set of book titles featured on the PBS television series The Reading Rainbow will give my students access to time-tested, quality fiction and non-fiction text. These books are memorable and well-written and their stories entice the students to read and reread them.
Also, in our writing workshop, we learn to use real authors as mentors, looking at how authors write exciting stories for readers. The Reading Rainbow titles provide a variety of authors to look at and observe as we write both fiction and non-fiction text.
My experiences and memories of watching Reading Rainbow and enjoying the stories featured have stuck with me throughout my childhood and adulthood. Now, I want to share these same timeless titles with my students throughout my teaching career. I want my students to have the same fond memories of Miss Nelson is Back and make connections with their own school experiences. I want them to know about the book Mummies Made in Egypt, and spark curiosity about history and geography. The book titles you are helping to provide are titles that will instill curiosity, knowledge, and pure reading enjoyment in my 2nd grade students! Thank you!
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
The Furry News : How to Make a Newspaper Loreen Leedy, Loreen Leedy (Illustrator)
• Barnes and Noble
$16.15
1
$16.15
Fox on the Job James Marshall, James Marshall (Artist)
• Barnes and Noble
$3.59
1
$3.59
Fly Away Home Eve Bunting, Ronald Himler (Illustrator)
• Barnes and Noble
$6.29
1
$6.29
Feelings Aliki, Aliki (Illustrator)
• Barnes and Noble
$6.29
1
$6.29
Enemy Pie Derek Munson, Chronicle Books, Tara Calahan King (Illustrator)
• Barnes and Noble
$12.79
1
$12.79
Dinosaur Bob and His Adventures with the Family Lazardo; And His Adventures with the Family Lazardo William Joyce, William Joyce (Illustrator)
• Barnes and Noble
$16.19
1
$16.19
Digging Up Dinosaurs Aliki, Aliki (Illustrator)
• Barnes and Noble
$5.39
1
$5.39
Desert Giant: The World of the Saguaro Cactus Barbara Bash
• Barnes and Noble
$6.25
1
$6.25
The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash Trinka Hakes Noble, Steven Kellogg (Illustrator)
• Barnes and Noble
$6.29
1
$6.29
Chickens Aren't the Only Ones Ruth Heller
• Barnes and Noble
$7.19
1
$7.19
Chair for My Mother Vera B. Williams, Vera B. Williams (Illustrator)
• Barnes and Noble
$15.29
1
$15.29
The Carousel Liz Rosenberg, Jim LaMarche (Illustrator)
• Barnes and Noble
$6.30
1
$6.30
Bugs Joan Richards Wright, Nancy Winslow Parker (Illustrator), Nancy W. Parker (Illustrator), With Joan Richards Wright
• Barnes and Noble
$6.29
1
$6.29
Brush Pere Calders, Carme Sole Vendrell (Illustrator), Marguerite Feitlowitz (Translator)
• Barnes and Noble
$6.25
1
$6.25
Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain: A Nandi Tale Verna Aardema
• Barnes and Noble
$7.19
1
$7.19
Bread Is for Eating David Gershator, Emma Shaw-Smith (Illustrator), Phillis Gershator
• Barnes and Noble
$7.15
1
$7.15
Boxes for Katje Candace Fleming, Stacey Dressen-McQueen (Illustrator)
• Barnes and Noble
$14.40
1
$14.40
Borreguita and the Coyote: A Tale from Ayutla, Mexico Verna Aardema, Petra Mathers (Illustrator)
• Barnes and Noble
$6.29
1
$6.29
The Biggest Test in the Universe Nancy Poydar, Nancy Poydar (Illustrator)
• Barnes and Noble
$15.25
1
$15.25
Bicycle Man Allen Say, Allen Say (Illustrator)
• Barnes and Noble
$6.25
1
$6.25
Berlioz the Bear Jan Brett, Jan Brett (Illustrator)
• Barnes and Noble
$6.29
1
$6.29
Beegu Alexis Deacon, Alexis Deacon (Illustrator)
• Barnes and Noble
$15.25
1
$15.25
Bea and Mr. Jones Amy Schwartz, Amy Schwartz (Illustrator)
• Barnes and Noble
$12.55
1
$12.55
Barn Dance! Bill Martin Jr., John Archambault, Ted Rand (Illustrator)
• Barnes and Noble
$7.15
1
$7.15
Badger's Parting Gifts Susan Varley, Susan Varley (Illustrator)
• Barnes and Noble
$7.19
1
$7.19
Archibald Frisby Michael Chesworth, Michael Chesworth (Illustrator)
• Barnes and Noble
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