My students need highlighters for close reading and annotating nonfiction text.
FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Wilder's classroom raised $223
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My Students
Teachers are not the only ones who get excited about new school supplies. My students are often just as excited as I am by the smell of a freshly-sharpened pencil, the smooth feel of a clean sheet of notebook paper, or the bright streak of a colorful highlighter moving across a line of text. I have a group of wonderful, hardworking students who, despite the struggling economy, look enthusiastically toward their future.
They are eager to learn and acquire the skills they will need to be competitive in the 21st century.
Common Core literacy standards support the idea that the two most important skills students will need to be successful in the future are reading and writing. My class sizes are large, about 35-40, and our school has very limited resources, even for the most basic supplies like paper and pencils. Because of this, I often use my own money to supply my students with many of the school supplies they need to be successful throughout the year.
My Project
Each year I teach my students to closely read both fiction and nonfiction texts. I use highlighters to help my students identify a variety of things as they read and to demonstrate their understanding of the text. Highlighters allow the students to color-code different ideas on nonfiction texts such as the author's main claim, key supporting evidence, challenging vocabulary, key terms and author's tone. When reading fiction, they use the different colors to identify different literary strategies such as characterization, conflict and symbols.
Close reading skills are vital to academic success.
In my classroom, highlighters are an important tool we use each day. As such, they often run out at some point in the year. These highlighters would replace the ones my students have happily drained with their thoughts, ideas and learning this year and allow them to continue to do so.
More than three‑quarters 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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