My students need subscriptions to several Scholastic magazines to have differentiated fiction and nonfiction text to use throughout the year during reading, writing, science and social studies.
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 school in Little Village, a predominantly Mexican neighborhood in the southwest side of Chicago. The school I work at has a population with a majority Latino students. Their first language is Spanish. In the years I have worked as a teacher, the students I have had come in every day with a lot of energy, with many questions and ready to learn.
Fourth grade is a very exciting year for students.
Throughout fourth grade, students learn to become independent learners. Furthermore, throughout fourth grade, students become exposed to many different text genres and develop many reading and writing skills.
One of the very exciting things about being in fourth grade is that students become independent readers. By the end of fourth grade, students leave having been exposed to many different genres of books. They also leave the fourth grade loving books and having learned new reading and writing strategies.
My Project
Scholastic magazines are always a hit with my students! Scholastic News brings kid-friendly current events into the classroom while building reading skills and content knowledge. I love Scholastic because they provide audio at different speeds for my English Language Learners as well as video and vocabulary. I use Scholastic in my classroom when teaching nonfiction skills.
This year I am requesting Storyworks and Science Spin to use in the classroom.
I can use it with the students during my fiction units as well as during science. Scholastic is a good resource to use in the classroom because it provides on-level non-fiction with ready-to-go lesson plans and online resources to build comprehension and vocabulary. By funding this project, you will be giving me the opportunity to open doors for my students into the world around them.
We need more reading resources to encourage my students to become fluent readers. Reading opens so many doors to children. Understanding the world around them and being able to travel outside of their small community will be possible through Scholastic magazines. Students will use the magazines to learn and reinforce important Common Core concepts and ideas. They will work in small groups and independently use the magazines as research literacy tools for social studies, literature and science assignments.
Nearly all students from low‑income households
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