My students need interesting class sets of books to motivate them to read more and improve their reading comprehension.
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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
"The more you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go. (Dr. Seuss)."My students don't really travel outside their immediate neighborhood. I want them to experience the wonders of traveling to other worlds through their imagination.
My students are a rambunctious group of ten and eleven year olds who love to interact with one another and life.
They are full of questions and comments about a myriad of subjects. Our school sits in the middle of an extremely poor Hispanic neighborhood where 91% of the residents are renters. Most families live in a bachelor or one-bedroom apartment. Many of my students sleep on the floor and do not have a dining room table to do their homework on. Families of six people live on less than $20,000 a year when their rents are between $800 to $1,000 a month. Our school services eleven hundred students. We provide free lunch and we serve breakfast in the classroom because most of our students don't eat breakfast at home. Many of our students get themselves ready for school because the adults in their household have already left for work. We run a before school program that starts at six am and an after-school program that runs until six pm. Some of our students are at school for twelve hours a day.
My Project
Our school library has many books and unfortunately, many of them are outdated and uninteresting. There are not enough copies of the interesting titles that my students are interested in. Additionally, a title can only be checked out for two weeks and cannot be renewed. 6th grade does not have class sets of great books that my students can be interested in. I would like my students to experience the wonders of reading about make-believe worlds that can spark their imagination and encourage them to be life-long readers. The main thing they tell me is books are boring. I tell them that reading is not boring and that they have to find a book that interests them and they will not be able to put it down. I envision all of us reading these wonderful books together, discussing them and creating a tableaux of scenes in the books, dissecting the similarities and differences between the world described in the books and their own world.
These books will allow my students to expand their reading comprehension and their interest in books.
The books will make them want to go to the local public library which is a couple of miles away and check out their own books and make them independent readers instead of only having to read for school assignments.
Nearly all 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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