My students are amazing! I teach in a school that is multi-cultural to the core! We are a high poverty school, but our belief is that all of our students will reach their full potential with our support.
We teach reading through small group work!
Each group uses books that are just the right level for them. This project will provide those perfect books! The students read with me, then are able to go and practice, practice, practice, building their skills!
My Project
These books are perfect for my beginning readers! They are just right for building a strong list of words that they can read with confidence and fluency. This will help them to be better readers for the rest of their lives! It will give them a very strong foundation to support them.
We love to read!
These books will inspire my struggling readers with great titles and topics to entertain and motivate them to push on and persevere. It will allow me to have my own book sets to teach by, giving me consistency! Thank you for considering donating to this important project!
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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