My students need books of all shapes, sizes, lengths, and genres to help deepen and broaden their love of reading.
$561 goal
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Hooray! This project is fully funded
My Students
My students are from a rural community in Wisconsin that is a short drive from a tourist town. Thus, many families have seasonal work, and struggle to provide school supplies, books, and other such items some take for granted.
My students are incredibly caring and hard working.
They understand the value of material possessions and thus treat anything in the room with great respect.
Lastly, my students LOVE reading. It baffles me at times how much they really do just want to curl up with a good book and read- and they are in middle school. I have an open policy when it comes to what you can "read for credit" in my class, and it shows. The past few years they have grown into avid readers, and thus learners. The empathy and experiences they can gain from books fills my teacher heart and makes this job even more incredible.
My Project
As a middle school ELA teacher, helping my students develop a love of reading is of the utmost importance to me. Our classroom library is sitting at roughly 150 books. While that may seem like a lot, scholastic.com suggests that each classroom library should have 20 books per child. With class sizes of 30 plus children, 150 books are simply not enough.
I want my kids to get lost in James Dashner's The Maze Runner series, and to deepen their understanding of WWII in World War Two: Under the Shadow of the Swastika (Campfire Graphic Novels) by Lewis Helfand (Author), Lalit Kumar Sharma (Illustrator).
My students need as many opportunities to get their hands on new books as possible. Fulfilling this book order will help my kiddos do just that.
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