My students need accessible but interesting books, like the Remnant Chronicles by Mary E. Pearson, to help them drop their phones and pick up a book!
FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Amanda's classroom raised $538
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.
My Students
English is more than just reading Shakespeare and writing essays. Just ask any student about the songs they wrote advocating for one aspect of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, or about the menus they created to open a discussion about foods from their home countries. English for these students is a pathway to connection and to exploring a new community of people from all over the world.
My students are all recently arrived newcomers.
They have been in the United States for less than four years. They come from a wide variety of countries such as Yemen, Haiti, Tibet and Senegal. In my classroom, there are over 15 languages spoken including Urdu, Arabic and Haitian Creole. We see this diversity as an incredible opportunity, but one that needs different types of support to be successful. This success is supported through the project-based approach of my school and classroom.
My Project
In the fight for our students' attention, we often lose the battle to cellphone and computer screens. In my classroom, we are trying to even up the playing field by filling our shelves with high interest books that just might entice a kid to put down their phone in order to pick up a book. Students will use these books to engage in daily reading, book clubs, and to borrow for reading at home.
High school ESL students pose a special challenge when it comes to finding accessible and interesting books, but it isn't impossible!
The books of this project include fantasy, romance, horror, realistic fiction, biography, and science fiction but all are at reading levels that are inviting to my developing English readers so that they might discover reading is more than just something that they do when they are at school.
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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