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 Students
My students are starving for high quality literature! Every year they exhaust my bookshelves and those in our school library reading everything they can get their hands on. Some even venture to our public library, which is quite a distance, just get new books to read! Lets bring books to these kids!
My class is located in a Kindergarten through 8th grade school just east of San Francisco.
Our school is comprised of a mixed demographic of students with more than 90% receiving free or reduced lunches. The challenges at home don't stop my students from reading and reading and reading. Each year, my 7th grade students read over 75% of the books in my classroom library and plead for me to purchase more high interest, engaging books! All this reading has resulted in phenomenal reading growth and exhausted my classroom books and bookshelves! This year, my 7th graders increased their reading level by an average of two grade levels in just one year! Our school strives to improve the lives of our students through engaging teaching strategies and programs after school run by our teachers. We are active participants in the No Excuses University group of schools and believe that our students are "College Bound"!
My Project
My students will use these books to read during our Accelerated Reading time, which is 30 minutes each day allotted to read and take tests on the books read to ensure comprehension. At the end of each month we present our top word readers with "degrees" earned for reaching milestones (250,000; 500,000; and 1 million words). When we started the Accelerated Reading program and milestone incentives just a few short years ago we only had 2 students achieve a million words by the end of the school year and earn a trip to a nearby bowling alley with their teachers! This year, we had over 35 students spanning from grades 2-7 achieve this goal! I look forward to encouraging more students to meet this goal!!!
These books will improve the selection and availability of engaging literature in my classroom.
In turn, this will encourage my students to read books that are interesting to them and promote learning!
Reading opens the door to so many other opportunities. With your donations, I will be able to help my students open those doors and learn!!
Nearly all 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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