My students need a CD player and a class set of headphones to have a learning station where they can listen to stories on tape, such as Listen, Read & Rhyme with Dr. Seuss.
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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
Can recall the joy of listening to your favorite Dr. Seuss book? How listening to the rhyming words and silly phrases made you feel? I want to create that experience for my students. They need to listen to stories and rhymes on a daily basis to improve reading and comprehension.
My students live in the inner-city.
The school they attend is nestled between factories and a homeless soup kitchen. They live with very little but have big hearts. Many of them are reading below grade level and are learning English along with all other content areas. They have little or no books at home. They mostly stay indoors because of the dangers the streets hold. Yet, they have aspirations and dreams of greatness and know that going to college is their ticket out of this neighborhood.
My Project
My students need Dr. Seuss books on CD, and a listening station with headphones to listen to stories. Listening to stories on CD will give them the practice needed to become not only fluent English speakers but also fluent readers. Listening to stories also will aid them with understanding what is being read.
The goal is that at the end of second grade is student read a minimum of 120 words per minute with comprehension. Having a listening center with books will greatly facilitate reaching our reading goal plus make it fun and enjoyable.
This project is very important because 2nd grade is the last grade where the focus is on learning how to read.
If a child goes to third grade without fluently reading they have a great chance of not succeeding in schools. Please help my students break the norm of failure. They need these resources so that they can be fluent readers and so that they can be ready for third grade. Together we can break the illiteracy and poverty cycle one classroom at a time.
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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