New Teacher and Veteran Teacher Need Books to Inspire Readers!
My students need award-winning graphic novels such as "The Shadow Hero" and Congressman John Lewis' "March" series to help lower-level readers to expand and develop vocabulary, and also chapter books that reflect their own heritages.
$392 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.
Our students are entering 7th grade eager to learn new ideas! Chapter books can be daunting to English learners, and can be hard to get them reading with confidence. Some also have learning differences which make art a useful tool. Quite a few of our kids are turned off by reading because they haven't yet found the books that make their imagination wake up, or because they don't see themselves in the books the find.
Our kids' struggles with reading so often it makes them believe they are failures in school, and adding books (to which they can feel connected) to our two classrooms will help them build skills to be able to access materials in all of their classes.
They live in a mostly Latino community, with small scattering of other cultures and backgrounds. Our school requires silent reading time each week, and this is part of their grade in language arts classes. We want to get them excited about reading and to support them in becoming successful learners.
My Project
We often hear students say that they don't like chapter books. What this often means in truth is that they don't connect to the characters, who seem too different or outside of their experience to understand. Those kids are close to giving up on reading. It is vital that we have books in which characters are a reflection of their own community and cultures, and which have teenagers in the lead with whom my kids can empathize. Graphic novels provide visual cues to English language learners who need help figuring out new vocabulary. Also, representation and diversity in children's literature is a vital part of helping students become global citizens and proficient readers.
"It's too hard" is not a phrase we want to hear from our seventh grade students; with some new literature in our classrooms, we want to change that so students can begin to say "this is challenging but I can figure it out".
Please help us get books that encourage vocabulary development through supporting students' interests.
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