Help me give my students award winning, diverse books for next years novel studies.
$1,910 goal
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Hooray! This project is fully funded
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.
I don't know how it happens, but every year, I am always given the best students in the school. My kids have an amazing capacity for kindness and love. They love helping each other. They love helping me and are often disappointed when I tell them I have no other jobs for them to do because they have done them already.
Even though they come from the poorest of the poor in our inner city community, they are always thinking of others.
We have several programs set up in our school to help with child hunger on the weekends and other basic life necessities. One day when students were getting pantry packs for the weekend, I over heard a couple students planning to take their food to the homeless shelter down the street because they needed it more. Every day I hear or see them do something wonderful that makes me think that these kids are going to make the world a much better place.
My Project
The fourth grade group we are getting in our classes next year are very low readers. After the third grade teachers worked tirelessly with them on phonics and decoding, next year in fourth grade we are going to continue that intensive work all while instilling a love of reading through year long novel studies.
The love of reading needs to be instilled at an early age, and if it is, that passion for good books will follow these students for the rest of their lives.
As a fourth grade team, we are going to switch up our approach to reading instruction for the 2020-2021 school year and do several different whole class novel studies through out the year. Our wonderful school library has a few of the books we have selected in class sets, but not all. Our goal is to have the book in every students hand so they can experience the book either on their own, as part of the whole group read aloud, or with partner.
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