I'm a Special Education teacher and literacy coach supporting teachers and students in kindergarten, first, and second grade in an elementary schools in Red Hook, Brooklyn. This school is a Title I schools, and the majority of the students I support receive free breakfast and lunch.
The neighborhood my school is located in contains one of New York City's largest public housing developments, and most of my students reside there.
Due to the geographic location of the neighborhood, there are few trains and bus routes servicing the community, so my students are very isolated from all of the bells and whistles of New York City.
My Project
After the past two years of learning during this pandemic, it's no surprise that there are some gaps in students' learning--especially our youngest learners who are developing their reading and writing skills. These decodable readers and associated teacher's guided will help the kindergarten, first, and second grade students I provide academic intervention to build upon their foundational literacy skills so that they can blossom into strong readers and writers. Decodable readers are books that contain a large number of phonetically regular words that can be sounded out once a student has knowledge of the phonics patterns focused on in the particular books. Decodable readers really help build a striving reader's confidence when introduced at the right time in their reading development.
More than three‑quarters 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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