My students need a listening center in order to be able to listen to great literature independent from read alouds.
FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Ellis's classroom raised $232
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 Students
Every student comes with different skills and a different background. It is part of my job to try to provide equal access to great books for these young learners. Many of my students cannot read literature independently, but at a listening center, they can hear great language while following along.
I work in an urban public school, with a low-income immigrant population for whom English is a new language.
The entire school receives free breakfast and lunch every day, in addition to dental, health, and counseling services through the school. For second-language learners, exposure to great literature and lots of language is essential to language and academic development. The students are hard-working and love to learn, so, I try to provide AS MANY WAYS to interact with books as possible. Our room is full of wonderful fiction and non-fiction texts. I read rich literature aloud, we read leveled literature in small groups, we read to each other, we invite guests to come in and read to our class, we build words and sentences, we create writing to reread together, and we have a library of books that children may borrow to read at home. Even with all this, it isn't enough.
My Project
This is a listening center that comes with 8 sets of earphones, a junction box, so that multiple people can listen from one machine, and a storage box with room for tapes. This not only provides most of the hardware needed to have a listening center, but it also provides a self-contained storage area for it.
Despite all of my efforts, my students still don't have enough opportunity to hear books.
I want them to have even more opportunity to listen to great stories, explore new ideas, discover new places, build new vocabulary, and continue to foster a love of literature. A listening center allows them to access literature that would ordinarily be out of their independent reading level.
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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