My students need high interest books that are on their reading level for our classroom library. These books will intrigue my students into the world of reading and further build their skills and confidence!
My students are growing and expanding their knowledge in a small tight knit community. Our school serves approximately 700 children each year. We are a small three school district serving low income families with about 70% receiving free and reduced lunches. Our students face more challenges than most people could ever think of in their life time. My students are creative, inquisitive, testers, questioners, and are searching for the right path. In our classroom, we work hard to change our mindset to the more I try the more I will learn. Every mistake means we are one step closer to the right answer.
On top of all their life challenges, reading is an enormous challenge for my students.
My students struggle with the basic reading skills and our goal is to drastically increase these skills. One part of our plan is to invest in high interest books that my students will be excited to read and able to relate to. A person's reading level is a strong indicator of how successful they may be outside of a classroom and I want to give my students every possible opportunity to increase their chances for a better quality of life.
My Project
My students are many grade levels behind in reading and cannot keep up with their grade level peers. This hurts their self esteem and confidence. My goal with all these awesome books is to intrigue my students into reading about their favorite movie, tv, or video game character(s) in order to increase their love of reading. I need more books that reference their own culture and are more relatable to their own lives. The more interest my students have in a topic, the more willing they are to work and focus on the goal at task.
I am hoping that with the use of our reading intervention program PLUS these high interest readers, my students will become lean mean reading machines before they leave my classroom!
The more their skills grow, the more their confidence grows! The more my students read, the more likely they are to be successful in their lives outside of school. Please help me increase my students' reading ability and confidence!
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