Help me give my students a broad selection of books to choose from! One of the biggest barriers to reading is access to quality and engaging books! Let's change that!
$450 goal
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
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.
Hello! I am a 6th & 8th-grade teacher in East Los Angeles! We are a neighborhood school and most of our students are able to walk here! Our school has been in the East LA community for 7 years now (our first graduating class has just graduated high school!), and I have had the privilege of being able to teach siblings and be apart of students' families for many years.
While I am a math teacher, I strongly believe in the power of reading and discovering other worlds and perspectives through books.
With over 100 students passing through my classroom each day, each with their own unique interests, my library can never have too many books!
Since our students have come back in person and are able to utilize my class library, I want to make sure I have something for everyone. My students' current favorites are graphic novels, the "I Survived" series, Harry Potter and novels written in verse. We have students with reading levels from kindergarten to high school, and students who are learning English.
My Project
Now that kid are back in school, we have been working hard to achieve our reading goals! Students have been engaging in independent reading time every single day and have gone through hundreds of books.
I have carefully curated a list that reflects my students' interests, backgrounds and also provides a look into the lives of those different from them.
I hope that these books will provide a window into other experiences and broaden students views of the world around them.
I have also made sure that these books span multiple reading levels, as we have students from kindergarten reading levels all the way to high school levels. My students are particularly loving the "I Survived" series and novels that are written in verse. My hope is to make sure each student takes home a book for our long winter vacation (3+ weeks) so they can continue to read and learn even while we are on break!
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