Beloved Characters to Boost Reading: Our Favorite Bilingual Book Collection
Help me give my students their favorite book collection in both English and Spanish for equity and promoting love for reading about their most beloved characters.
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.
My Project
My students are emergent readers who love to encounter beloved characters they are familiar with when making a book choice for accessible independent reading. Our classroom library choices are very limited and students are not finding titles that get their interest; the Elephant and Piggie collection, which they are familiar with, has accessible text for emergent readers, features funny stories, and is available both in English and Spanish, which promotes the equity in the classroom that I always pursue.
We would be really grateful if we could add beloved titles to our scarce library.
Reading is the core to all the learning that is yet to come.
More than half of students from low‑income households
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