Greed, Evil, and Might Versus Courage and Goodness? We're In!
My students need 30 copies of the classic, Matilda, by Roald Dahl as our next, great classroom read aloud.
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My Students
Our students are joyful, hard-working and inspirational in their stamina and resilience. They also make our school the most diverse school in the district! For example, in one classroom, there can be up to ten different languages represented. Because of where we are located, we also have a growing number of students who are in transitional housing. Whatever the challenge, our students are constantly learning from each other and inspiring one another through their differences and similarities.
The diversity of our students sets our school apart from others and has created an amazing school community!
This unique quality has also presented challenges in differentiating our instruction; specifically in reading and language arts. This only emboldens our kids to strive for more while instilling a deeper level of understanding for other's struggles.
My Project
Matilda, by Roald Dahl, is the perfect book for my 5th grade students! Each year, my 5th graders and I read at least one novel as a class and kids love a book with a powerful antagonist; one that really gets their ire up! A book with a great antagonist always fosters wonderfully organic discussions and authentic engagement about theme, character traits, inferencing, plot development, and setting which are all grade-level reading standards. In addition, the actions of a dastardly antagonist in a novel also makes it easy to recognize "show not tell" sentences which we practice in our narrative writing. My students will love reading about Matilda, a four year old genius who is neglected and verbally abused by parents and teachers but who gets sweet revenge each and every time. The antagonists are pure evil which is a quality that I know will grab my students and hold them throughout.
One of my primary goals as a reading teacher is to foster joy and excitement about reading and Matilda accomplishes this.
When I used this story as a read aloud last year, the kids could not get enough! They all asked if they could borrow my one copy so they could read ahead. Even my below grade level readers and my English language learners were begging to read Matilda on their own; however, sharing the one copy I owned and an additional copy from our school library left my students disappointed.
I want my current and future students to have the opportunity to experience this hilarious story by having their own copy while we read and learn story elements together. And if this year's class is anything like last year's class, they will want to read ahead. Multiple copies of Dahl's Matilda will allow them to do this.
More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households
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