My students need reading material such as 36 subscription to both Scholastic News and SuperScience that introduces them to real-world issues, specifically in science, to expand their knowledge of science content and current events.
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
This year, schools in Arizona will receive their letter grade based on a year-end 4th grade science assessment. While we are teaching science more than ever before, our students are in desperate need of reading material that covers both science topics and current events.
I teach two sections of 4th grade Language Arts (Reading, Writing, Grammar, and Spelling) and Social Studies at a Title 1 school in a low-income neighborhood in southwest Phoenix, AZ.
I have nearly 40 students in each section. My students are bright and inquisitive, but many of them lack the resources at home to learn about the topics that interest them or the world around them.
My Project
With these resources, our classes will be able to read about current events, problems, and advances being made in multiple science-based areas around the world. We will use close reading strategies to build vocabulary and personal understanding of the articles we read. We will use the nonfiction text features to help us make predictions, make inferences, and draw conclusions about what we read. Students will be able to summarize what they have read in their own words, draw connections between different articles and stories they have read, and draw connections between the articles and the topics and experiments they study in science class. Students will write about what they have learned and what questions they still have after reading. The students can debate different sides of an issue and begin to broaden their understanding of the world outside of their neighborhood.
Donations to this project will help give our students access to science materials that we need to supplement our curriculum.
The project will help students to exceed on our quarterly and end of the year science assessments. It will also help students learn more about the world around them, and show them the different careers in science that are available to them as they grow older.
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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