My students need graphic novels like Lunch Lady, Manga Math Mysteries, and the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew sets to help them make connections between illustrations and words.
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
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. -Oscar Wilde
My goal is to provide the 72 students of my two 4th grade classes with high interest graphic novels to help support their acquisition of language and encourage them to READ!
My students are inquisitive and hungry for information.
I teach two sections of 4th graders at a Title I school in Phoenix. 90% of the students at our school qualify for free or reduced meals. Many students leave school and go to homes where they do not have access to books or technology. At our school, we have many students who go home and speak in a language other than English. Although most of my 72 students have expressed an interest in reading, not all of them understand English well enough to help them comprehend a text's themes. By donating to this project, you can help us build a classroom library that is engaging and interesting to all students, no matter their reading abilities or interests. By donating, you are helping us add graphic novels and organization bins to our classroom library.
My Project
My students need graphic novels like Lunch Lady, Manga Math Mysteries, and the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew sets to help them make connections between illustrations and words. With these graphic novels, I am hoping to help my students to become better independent readers in school and outside of school. Students will read the novels to themselves, practice reading aloud to a partner or teacher for fluency, and learn to connect the illustrations with the characters' dialogue or narration. I want to give students the opportunity to explore new genres, and to encounter higher level text that might otherwise be unavailable to them without the assistance of the illustrations in the graphic novels. The storage bins are to help us keep the graphic novels organized and prevent damage to the novels.
Graphic novels are interesting and engaging to students, because they look like comics.
When students who are English language learners are able to connect the words they are reading to illustrations, they have an easier time understanding what they are reading, and are able to expand their vocabulary at the same time. When students are interested and invested in their reading, regardless of ability or level, it carries over to other areas of their lives and helps them become successful
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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