Help me give my students reading materials for guided reading! After looking at my beginning of year benchmarks, I want meaningful texts for my students to fall in love with during reading.
When I started at this school two years ago, a coworker told me the first time I met her that there will be lots of little ones that will need my love here! Boy, was she right!
Our school consists of over 800 students and is the most diverse of the thirteen elementary schools in the Central Dauphin School District.
We have approximately twenty countries represented in our student body. Class sizes range from 25-30 students with a high number of students who transfer in and out of the school.
My students come into school each day knowing that school is their safe place with a teacher who truly cares about them. Many of my students have a variety of academic, learning, and social-emotional needs. Every day is a fresh start, and that is one thing that is tricky about being a teacher, but it's what every student deserves. My students come from a variety of backgrounds, some even carry a heavier load of trauma. The students are the heart of my classroom!
My Project
Help me bring rich titles into my classroom and our bookroom! I want to be able to provide my students with books that they fall in love with and can have meaningful discussions about in their reading groups and literature circles. The chapter books in our bookroom are falling apart or dated.
Looking at my fall benchmarks scores doesn't scare me, but rather excites me because I want to see my higher-level readers continue to grow and excel!
The best way to do this is to put wonderful literature in their hands!
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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