Imagine yourself walking through the book store. Overstuffed chairs, running your fingers along the spines of the books, the quiet and solitude you experience as you hunt for the perfect read.
Our fourth graders are some of the most amazing young people on the planet.
They are voracious readers and are full of ideas and wonder. Our urban school is the home to many students from diverse backgrounds. Our students' backgrounds touch nearly every continent on this big blue marble we call Earth. Our school has nearly 50% of the students receiving free and reduced lunch with many students living in severely impoverished conditions.
My Project
We want to take our fourth graders on a whirl wind tour of our city and "occupy" as many different places as possible to show the people of our town that reading, and education, can happen anywhere. In this time of both financial and political unrest for public schools, our classes are committed to showing everyone that they are readers and reading can happen anywhere. Our plan is to travel throughout our city and visiting different iconic spots to "occupy and read". Students will be having signs quoting their favorite books or authors. Our students are hoping to engage both other children and adults in conversations about books. Not just any conversations, but deep meaningful conversations that show that these kids are on the path to becoming life long readers. We would like our trip to culminate at our local book retailer, so the kids can have the experience of going to a book store and choosing a book to take home and call their own. For some, this has never happened.
Our goal is two-fold.
It is to show the people of our city that learning can happen anywhere, even on the steps of City Hall. But also, we would like to give our students the opportunity to go into a store and choose a book to call their own. For some kids, this is something that has never happened. We hope that others are inspired by our charge and join us and eventually create a reading revolution!
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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