My students need 56 Pokemon books - a sure way to draw reluctant readers to our school library.
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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
Every day, our school library is visited by kids in search of comic books. Most of these kids are 3rd - 8th grade boys. Some of these students also read conventional books; some only come for the comics. We need new comic titles. I've polled the kids, and they all agree: let's go for POKEMON.
Let me tell you a little about our school and our kids.
We are a K-8 Center, which means that we cater to kids from four to fourteen years old. Around 85% of our students receive free or reduced lunch. In other words, we are in a high poverty zone. Most of our children are first-generation Americans. Their parents are immigrants from the Caribbean and Latin America, with low-paying jobs in the local tourism industry. The kids' homes tend not to have a lot of English-language reading materials. The school library plays a vital function in turning these kids into regular readers. And nothing attracts our more reluctant readers like comic books.
My Project
The question is, which comic books should we get them? I can't pretend to be an anime expert, but I don't need to be. The kids all agree on POKEMON. These books satisfy my two criteria for comics: they should come in story sets, so our students keep coming to the library to check out the next installment, and they should be age-appropriate (no drawings should be too gory or too curvaceous): I've researched POKEMON in databases for librarians, and it is firmly aimed at the grade school market, and quite appropriate for kids.
Some kids wouldn't come to the library at all, were it not for our comics section.
Remember those 3rd - 8th grade reluctant readers. They begged me to get them POKEMON. They even went onto Amazon to select the right POKEMON series for me.
Please help to make these kids happy - and keep packing them into the library!
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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