My students need opportunities to read books that are at the appropriate reading level. The better the books, the easier it becomes to learn to read. They need Reading Recovery Books Levels 3-6 to be successful.
FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Ellis's classroom raised $470
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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
See Jane. See Jane read.
Learning to read is really what 1st grade is all about. By the time they leave my care, I need my students to be readers for many purposes: finding information, drawing conclusions, making connections, enjoyment... But readers need books.
I just started this year at one of Boston Public's Turnaround Schools.
This means that the city decided the school was under-performing too many years in a row, and the staff and administration was changed. So now we have 3 years to bring ALL students to proficiency. No small task. My students are wonderful, kind, hard-working people, but may of whom live with lots of challenges impeding their education. At our school, 94& of the population lives below the poverty line. Students get free lunch and breakfast, as well as dental, health and mental health services provided on site. Most of our students are learning their second language, and many come from single parent families. All these factors make what we do during school hours even more sacred. We meed to fit as much as possible into those 6 hours. To me, the key then becomes to help them become readers.
My Project
No one learns to read the same as anyone else. We each bring different layers to a text with our background, life experiences, and previous encounters with books. Good literature maximizes the number of students that can access the text by carefully choosing the themes, situations, and language. These book collections offer the best in leveled readers. They are carefully chosen titles which provide maximum access, having accounted for language structure, pictorial support, content, and page layout. They are the ideal instructional tool because this means students can browse through a library of books that are at their reading level.
Just like Goldilocks and the Three Bears, we each need the book that is "Just Right" for us.
Books that are too easy don't force us to stretch and employ new reading strategies. Books that are too hard frustrate us and make us believe we can't read well enough. With these book collections, I have the best chance of helping each student feel successful. That kind of confidence will last a lifetime.
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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