Help me give my students a brand-new and interesting book for summer reading and learning!
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My Students
Our district is very low-income and diverse. When the prospect of "Distance Learning" became a reality, many of our teachers and staff knew there were families that would have limited access, or no access, to technology at home. Thankfully, our district took action to survey the families with teacher assistance. We were able to find out how many families had a device that their children could use at home, and whether they had home Internet or WiFi to connect those devices.
Families who needed access to a device were able to borrow a student iPad from the school.
Families who needed access to WiFi were provided with a phone "hotspot" device for an Internet connection. Now, almost all of our students are "connected" and able to access the lessons and resources we provide on "Google Classroom." As a sixth-grade teaching team, we are working hard to provide lessons in math, reading, writing, science, social studies, P.E., art, and socio-emotional-learning. Students can also access district-provided learning programs, like "LEXIA," "Zearn" and "BrainPop!" It's great knowing that now, all our students have equal opportunities to access these "assignments" and continue practicing their skills at home!
My Project
Since our students have been sequestered at home under the "Shelter In Place" order and the schools are physically closed for the remainder of the year, we have lost opportunities to get books into students' hands. When students don't have access to good books to read at home, they tend to stop reading in their free time, and their reading levels decline. This is especially a challenge during the summer months.
Usually, we have a spring "Book Fair" at our school and monthly "Book Club" orders in our classrooms, from "Scholastic," which offers lots of reasonably priced books for our students and families.
As teachers, we often purchase lots of discounted books from Scholastic to send home with students as a year-end gift, to both reward their academic efforts and encourage them to keep reading over the summer.
The 6th-grade teachers would like to purchase at least one book for every student to keep. Students would receive this book when they are invited to return their school textbooks and library books in June. This way, all our 6th-grade students will have a chance to get a new and interesting book for themselves.
The book we have chosen is related to our thematic "Distance Learning" unit, all about the effects of plastic pollution in the oceans. Students learned that it is better to have reusable water bottles, rather than single-use recyclable bottles every day. The book, "Living Green," will extend their learning and give them a chance to try other ways of "going green" in their daily lives.
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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