My students need multiple leveled reading materials to improve literacy: DRA Levels C, D, E and F.
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My Students
"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go! And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed." -Dr. Seuss
My students are deserving of the resources necessary for them to succeed!
Our school houses almost twelve hundred students in kindergarten through fifth grade.
We are an underfunded, Title 1 school, in an inner city, where many ethnicities come together to learn and explore while speaking over forty languages! The students in my second grade class are a diverse bunch. They live in a high poverty area, and they all receive free breakfast and lunch. My class consists of students with very diverse educational needs. I have students who speak English as a second language and students who read anywhere from a kindergarten to a third grade level.
My Project
For most children, becoming a good reader means having an effective literacy program that offers many activities that support learning. This includes individual reading by the student, encouraging them to be more independent, get more practice, and choose books for themselves. A leveled book collection would be beneficial to my multi-leveled class. Emergent readers would be able to select just right text that have a larger font and clear spaces between words and lines, therefore, making it easy for them to comprehend simple plots. As readers become more advanced, they will be able to select books with more complex plots and a wider range of vocabulary to express meaning. Studies show that the best way to teach kids to read is to pair them up with books that are at their instructional or independent reading level.
My students need multiple leveled reading materials to improve literacy: DRA Levels C, D, E, and F.
This leveled library will allow me the necessary resources needed to promote literacy in my class. Students will build their fluency and comprehension skills when they read books that are on their target level, allowing them to concentrate on comprehension instead of struggling in decoding unknown words. Students will succeed and become lifelong learners.
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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