Help me give my students a deeper connection to characters and perspectives in what they read.
$1,090 goal
This project expired on March 24, 2022.
This project expired on March 24, 2022.
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.
I teach 7th grade social studies, 6-12 grades reading intervention and Culturally Linguistically Diverse Students at a K-12 school in Greeley, CO. Many of these students are significantly behind in reading and writing skills. Many who are significantly behind in reading and writing skills also have very diverse backgrounds.
The goal of this project is to provide an equally diverse set of characters and perspectives in the content of what students are learning.
By having their ethnicities, various heritages and backgrounds represented in their learning content, they will have an increased understanding of the content.
The purpose of the intervention classes are to close the achievement gap. All of them are working very hard to gain skills for them to be more prepared for high school. Our high school is a preparatory school to ensure student readiness for the next phase of their lives post graduation.
My Project
I teach Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students and Reading Intervention classes. Many of these students come from a diverse background and do not see much diversity in what they are reading.
My goal is to help students improve their reading and writing skills, while exploring books where they can more easily relate to the characters or cultures in the book.
By having the books be more culturally accessible, it help to increase reading skills, comprehension and more enjoyable for these students to relate to. Having increased relatability will only benefit students.
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