Help me give my students graphic novels that will make reading and engaging, fun and adventure-filled experience! These graphic novels will be their bridge to even more complex chapter books!
This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.
My Students
I teach 12-14 year olds from diverse backgrounds at an urban public school in an ELA inclusion classroom. A majority of the students that attend my school are African American and Hispanic. These intelligent and resilient students are working hard with the support of me their Special Ed Inclusion teacher, their ESL teachers and their other resource teachers (paraprofessionals) to overcome significant challenges around special needs, language and vocabulary acquisition.
Unfortunately, several of these students have entered 7th grade with a 3rd grade or lower reading level, each of my students really want the words, the ideas, and the concepts to change that.
My students want to feel empowered to express themselves, their perspectives and their experiences. A universally accessible classroom library relevant to their lives, will help them get the words, ideas, and contexts they need to fully express themselves!
My Project
These graphic novels will add to the Universal Design of my classroom by being added to the traditional chapter books already in my classroom library. Not only are these novels relevant to the lived experience of my students, they will act as an essential 'access point' for Special Education students who struggle with reading. The truth is reading can feel like an unbearable challenge to surmount for students who gained a functional reading level (3rd grade) late in their schooling. Many of the students I will be teaching this year come from a special education background and are navigating various special needs, intellectual, emotional and psychological, that have made learning to read with fluency and comprehension much more difficult. Many of my students are coming into my 7th grade class with a 3rd grade or lower Instructional Reading Level, this makes reading textually dense grade level chapter books a daunting and nearly impossible task.
In my 3+ years of teaching, I have seen multiple students positively devour relevant graphic novels that have a significant amount of text in them and, then later, move on to chapter books that are within the same genre.
I want my Special Education students to attach the emotions of curiosity, joy and pride to their experience of reading, I want them to break the vicious cycle of picking up a book they are sort of interested in, and then putting it down in dejection because they understood way less than 80% of the words on the page. Graphic novels will give them more access, through visual context, to the text that they read, and so they will feel more confident in, and proud of, their level of fluency and comprehension.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid 12 Books Complete Collection Set New(Diary Of a Wimpy Kid,Rodrick Rules,The Last Straw,Dog Days,The Ugly Truth,Cabin Fever,The Third Wheel,Hard Luck,The Long Haul,Old School..etc
• Amazon Business
$65.80
1
$65.80
Smile, Sisters, and Guts: The Box Set
• Amazon Business
$23.14
1
$23.14
Texting with Black History: Martin Luther King Jr., Sojourner Truth, and Aretha Franklin Biography Book for Kids (Texting with History Collection)
• Amazon Business
$12.99
1
$12.99
The Meltdown (Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 13)
• Amazon Business
$9.00
1
$9.00
Wrecking Ball (Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 14)
• Amazon Business
$8.99
1
$8.99
Drama
• Amazon Business
$7.19
1
$7.19
Ghosts
• Amazon Business
$5.59
1
$5.59
Diary of a Wimpey Kid: Roderick Rules (Diary of a Wimpy Kid)
• Amazon Business
$5.55
1
$5.55
Materials cost
$138.25
Vendor shipping charges
$4.94
Sales tax
$0.00
3rd party payment processing fee
$2.07
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$175.26
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$30.93
Total project goal
$206.19
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal
$206.19
1 Donor
-$179.01
Donations toward project cost
-$174.78
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
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