Help me give my students library books that they want to read and help them to develop a love of reading.
$791 goal
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Hooray! This project is fully funded
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 elementary school holds four kindergarten classrooms, four first grade classrooms, four second grade classrooms, three third grade classrooms, three fourth grade classrooms and three self-contained special education classrooms.
Three noteworthy characteristics of the school are the large number of Hispanic students, the numerous students who speak languages other than English as well as the low economic status of a majority of the students.
My Project
When I began as librarian in our school, the books were very old and outdated. In addition to this problem, my school contains a large number of students who do not have access to books in their homes. Therefore, the books from our library were the only books many children had to read for enjoyment, and they were not books which they would have chosen to read. Because having access to books for independent reading plays heavily on a child's reading development, it was imperative to improve the school's library book collection. During the last few years I have diligently tried to update the books in the school library. Teacher and student requests play heavily on the books which are ordered. Unfortunately, because of the cost of library books, it takes time to revamp a library.
The books chosen for this project are all books that students ask for but have not been available in our library.
I have chosen biographies for my very youngest readers and biographies and sport books for my older readers. If the project is completed, I will have a building full of happy readers.
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