My students need nonfiction picture books and biographies to learn to love informational text!
$425 goal
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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.
My students are inquisitive, engaging fourth graders. They are curious students who love to ask questions and extend their learning. Our classroom is a warm and welcoming community of learners. These amazing young people bring their cultural backgrounds into our class of learners to create a diverse classroom community.
Our 3rd through 8th graders and their families choose to attend this school to be a part of our wonderful, small school learning environment.
I teach at a public magnet school with less than 400 students in 3rd-8th grades, which provides a unique opportunity for upper elementary and middle school students to share the same campus and school community. As a school of choice instead of a neighborhood zoned school, we have students enrolled from throughout the district's different school zones.
My Project
One of the skills students need to master in school is reading and understanding nonfiction, or informational text. With the new standards, students are expected to read 50% nonfiction beginning in 4th grade, eventually increasing to 70% nonfiction in higher grades. The texts they read for science and history are all nonfiction, and in adult life most magazines and news articles are nonfiction as well. Unfortunately, many children think of nonfiction as "dry" and boring, and many students dislike reading it.
It is important for students to learn to like nonfiction by providing high-interest nonfiction books for them to find books and topics they like.
However, there is not enough nonfiction in most libraries for this, so I need your help to provide my students with engaging picture books and biographies about topics and people such as Anne Frank, 9/11, the Statue of Liberty, bubble gum, Michael Jordan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Jane Austen, and many more.
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