My students need 34 copies of high-interest, middle school texts such as The Olympians Series, The Bluford High Series, and books by Sonya Sones.
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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.
I teach 2 sections of 7th grade ELA in a low-income, urban school where 96% of students qualify for free lunch.
After 5 years in the classroom, I know that the most effective way for students to make dramatic gains in reading growth is to encourage them to read high-interest texts on their reading level. I take pride in raising student reading levels by 1.5 or more years, so having a great collection of reading material is crucial to me. I am lucky to have a group of motivated readers in my seventh grade classes this year. At the beginning of each school year, I spend a week or so outlining my expectations and encouraging students to set audacious goals for themselves for the school year and beyond.
As a class, our goal is that each student will read 40 books on their level by year's end. However, many of my students have set the bar much higher, aiming for 55 or 60 books completed this year. Additionally, students set goals for how many pages they’d plan to read each week. As I write this, it is only November and I already have students reading over 1,000 pages per week! Imagine how many pages they’ll be reading by June!
As a teacher, I am both energized by their enthusiasm and concerned about my inadequate supply of reading material! While my classroom library contains hundreds of texts, very few are engaging enough to tempt these voracious readers. Additionally, most of the books in my classroom library are well below my students' read level and thus, unappealing to my students.
My project needs a wide variety of high-level, high interest fiction texts for my students to read. These include challenging series texts like the fabulous Olympians series as well as Neal Shusterman's compelling novels.
My students are avid readers but need some assistance finding texts to suit their tastes. Please help me fill our classroom library with books that will motivate my students to EXCEED their reading goals for the year!
More than half of 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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