Help me give my students access to decodable texts that match the phonics skills that they are working on, as well as professional books that will help me to grow in my practice.
My students inspire and surprise me all of the time! I have the privilege of working with small groups of learners who work hard, collaborate, and continue to build their reading stamina and language skills every day. We live in a small mountain community in Northern California. My first through fifth-grade students, many of whom are multilingual learners, need additional support with reading, writing, and language development. They thrive in learning environments where they feel safe taking risks; where they perceive reading and writing as positive and attainable; and where they know their voices will be heard and honored by those around them.
My students are eager learners who speak a variety of languages, demonstrate unique learning needs, and respond well to rich & engaging instructional approaches.
Many of my students are still figuring out how the English language works, and learning about all of the sounds and spelling patterns that will help them to grow as readers and writers.
My Project
We are so lucky to have such a diverse group of learners, and we want to be sure that we find a way to help them all continue to grow! And, I am always trying to find ways to continue to grow my own practice, especially as new research comes to light.
I am looking forward to providing additional tools for beginning readers, as well as gaining new knowledge to grow my practice.
My literacy-intervention and ELD students need more materials to help them with their developing literacy skills, and I need to find ways to better support their learning as well as help build a bridge between their small group lessons with me, and their instruction in their main classrooms.
Because there are 25 copies of each decodable reader, I will be able to use some of them with my intervention students, send others home for them to read with their families, and add the remaining copies to our school's shared book room. I will use the knowledge that I gain through the professional books to support my own students, as well as pass it along to my staff members to help them find new ways to support the readers in their classrooms.
Thank you so much for your generosity and support!
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