Help me give my students access to tested Teachers Pay Teachers resources to help them practice their literacy skills in a targeted way!
FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Smith's classroom raised $275
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.
My Project
Targeted skills practice is one of the best things that secondary students can do to improve their literacy skills. Many of my students, particularly those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, need additional practice with skills that ask them to integrate basic skills with higher-order thinking skills like evaluation, synthesis, and making connections. While these tasks can seen daunting, it's amazing the difference that a fun way to practice can make in both student engagement and their skills! Teachers Pay Teachers has great resources created by experienced teachers that help students practice these types of skills.
This project will help me build student activities by using pre-created materials from experienced educators, as well as help my students practice specific literacy skills in fun and engaging ways.
Resources like task cards, foldables, and interactive notes (printed on fun colored paper with stickers for successful practice and completion!) offer huge benefits for students who need additional support with literacy skills. I was surprised last year when the students in my intervention class (a class to offer extra support in reading) asked for targeted skills practice; they knew that they felt more confident in their skills when they had a chance to practice those skills in bite-sized chunks, supporting each other and getting help from me in a small-group setting. Once we integrated these types of activities (in fun ways like stations, scavenger hunts, and escape rooms) into their practice, their confidence improved, as did their standardized test scores. This project will help me build my library of effective practice activities to be able to individualize learning based on the skills and interests of my students this year.
Nearly all 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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