Connecting 5th Graders With High-Quality Non-Fiction Digital Resources
Help me give my students a love of non-fiction reading to help them grow as compassionate and informed historians and scientists.
FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Minas's classroom raised $767
This project is fully funded
My Students
Distance learning has, unsurprisingly, been a challenge for teachers all across the world during this unprecedented pandemic. We left our physical school on Friday, March 13, and launched our online learning the following Monday. Our school is a Title I elementary school that serves nearly 400 students, with 55% of our students coming from low-income backgrounds.
My resilient, hardworking fifth graders have risen to the challenges of distance learning and have quickly and skillfully adapted to these difficult circumstances.
They continue to push themselves academically across all content areas to continue their growth and set themselves up for success as they transition to new middle schools next year.
Our fifth graders will begin their final year of elementary school participating in remote learning. Each year, the first six weeks are dedicated to building community and relationships among students. Distance learning presents an obvious challenge to establishing the foundations for our class community because we will not be physically together. To offset these challenges, we will be exploring ways to build community while promoting social and emotional well-being among the members of our class.
My Project
Setting up a new classroom includes ensuring the library has a wide variety of fiction and non-fiction books that will appeal to the interests of all learners. Connecting readers to books that are engaging to them is the best way to spark a love of reading and foster a community in which students look forward to immersing themselves in the worlds and experiences of others, whether real or imaginary.
During distance learning, the challenge of collecting students to high-interest informational resources becomes even more difficult!
This project strives to add to our digital classroom library high-interest topics such as black holes, earthquakes and tsunami, and Westward Expansion, that are sure to pique curiosity and engage readers over the course of the school year.
Third through fifth graders will be able to access TrueFlix at school and at home. Students will be able to read about science and history topics and benefit from features include glossaries, short videos, and the option to have the text read aloud to them, which will benefit our struggling readers and our English Language Learners.
TrueFlix is an amazing resource as it provides students with high-quality books and provides great opportunities for teaching valuable research and reporting skills. This resource will enhance teaching and learning across all of our upper elementary school grades.
More than half 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
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