Help me give my students materials necessary to create a fun, but organized classroom library and guided reading area. The flexible bookcase would allow me to reinvent and invigorate our library throughout the year to motivate readers!
FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Miller's classroom raised $306
This project is fully funded
My Students
With the upcoming school year approaching, I am eager to meet my new set of students. However, I know from my school's overall community and communication with their past teachers, that there will undoubtably be the same struggles present in my new class that were very much alive in my class that has moved on. There will be students who will show up every single day to school with their bodies and minds, but no supplies. There will be students who will bring their smile to class day in and day out, but will not have a pencil. There will be students with vibrancy that will light up your entire day, but with no coat on those cold, winter days.
Quite simply, my students are learning how to be students, as well as people, in a world that does not always cater to them.
My job is to bridge whatever gap they come into my classroom with as very best as I can.
My Project
My students come from a world full of stories to tell, some positive and some not as positive. Nonetheless, they all live story-worthy lives. My goal this upcoming year is to truly nurture a love and enthusiasm for reading within them. I aim to lead them to the understanding that books are the ticket to whatever place you need them to take you to. I want my students to embrace the characters in the stories we venture through as their own, and to realize they are more like our beloved characters than they may have initially realized.
My students have the right to love books, no matter what their current reading level may be.
This year, I will be using lots and lots of post-it notes as a fun way to help my readers engage both independently and collaboratively in their books through active note-taking. I want our class library to be fully equipped with said post-it notes as well as book recommendation forms to really create a reading community in our room. This, of course, requires paper. The selected design for one of the bookshelves that would be present in our library is perfect. It would allow me to continuous revamp the look of the library, keeping students invested and eager to explore new titles.
Our Guided Reading area will be another sacred space to explore and investigate literature. This space needs stools for the students to comfortably sit for the journey. The fun supply organizer would be ideal in providing each student with any items needed to complete the activity for that day.
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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