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
I teach in a very high poverty school in the middle of Silicon Valley, California. Ninety-nine percent of my students receive free or reduced lunch. The majority of my students are second language learners and text complexity can be very challenging. Most of my students are learning how to use background knowledge to do the hard work of inferring. My students love to come to school and book shop in our classroom library and be able to find the books they want and can read. A classroom that is predictable and safe can help reduce the stresses of challenging lives.
My Project
This year our classroom of readers went Crazy for series books. My students loved Tracy West books (which unfortunately have gone out of print, but I was able to find used copies), Katie Woo, Poppleton, and Bunnicula to name a few. They practically begged me to order more than I had in my classroom, which I truly felt compelled to oblige, even though it was near the end of the school year.
This year I focused on sentence structures and its effect on text complexity and I found that the majority of students needed to stay at reading levels a little longer in order to internalize sentence structures.
It made sense to me why they loved series books. The books have familiar characters and events, which enable the students to be familiar with the predictability of the story lines. The hard work of reading for second language learners is half way done when it is scaffolded.
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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