Help me give my students access to Ahora Scholastic Magazine, a high interest magazine entirely in Spanish to help gain my students' interest and engagement in our second target language.
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.
My Project
I am teaching in a 6th grade Dual Language classroom this year- a 50/50 immersion model. We learn half of the day in English and the other half in Spanish. The students in my class currently have almost all been together for 6 years leading up to now as a part of this DL cohort.
As a result of COVID-19, this cohort missed out on a true 50/50 Dual Language model for a couple of years due to remote learning and the challenges that presented our Title 1 community.
This impact is still seen today in their current scores and reading levels in both languages. While many of my students come from backgrounds that support spoken Spanish at home, most need more support with their Spanish literacy skills.
I believe this high-interest Scholastic magazine, Ahora, will not only capture their attention, but provide access to more Spanish non-fiction materials to work on our reading comprehension and Spanish speaking skills with. The articles and activities not only will stretch them with their understanding of the text, but most have a social-emotional piece that we can use during our class community time to have meaningful discussions around. This will allow my kiddos to not only regain their tight knit class community in a choice program such as ours, but to learn more about our community-at-large. Being in a Dual Language program with the goal of bilingual, biliterate, and bicultural students exiting high school, that long term focus is important to our classroom. This resource will provide us another avenue to make that possible as well as to see how our dual language skills can impact the greater world around us.
More than half 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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