Help me give my students a larger selection of books for our classroom library!
$994 goal
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
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.
Ninety percent of YES Prep students are first-generation college bound. Eighty percent of YES Prep students are economically disadvantaged. Ninety-five percent of YES Prep students are Hispanic or African American. Most students enter YES at least one grade level behind in reading. These may seem like dismal statistics. But...
ONE HUNDRED PERCENT of YES graduating seniors are accepted into four-year colleges.
YES stands for Youth Engaged in Service. Not only do my students have longer school hours, but they volunteer regularly in the Houston community. Because of this unique supplement of volunteerism to our curriculum, not only do our students go off to college, but they come back to Houston after graduation and give back to the community. YES is transforming the face of Houston education, one child at a time, and we are proving that any child can learn.
My Project
My students have an opportunity to read for an extended period of time at least once a week during class time. Students in my classroom like to read about a variety of things, but our school library is small and underfunded. It doesn't have a large collection of books, and it doesn't have many of the most recent titles.
I would like to have a large selection of books that will hold students' interests and keep them reading in my classroom.
Helping students begin to learn that reading is fun is perfect way to build better readers. Creating strong reading habits among my students will build their fluency and help them prepare for more rigorous course work in the future.
The Flowers in the Attic Saga: Flowers in the Attic/Petals on the Wind; If There Be Thorns/Seeds of Yesterday; Garden of Shadows (Dollanganger)
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