"Read it again, please Mrs. G., read it again!" This is a phrase I often hear after each story I read in my kindergarten classroom. I wish I could read all day long, and with the TAG Reading System, my students will be able to hear their favorite stories again and again!
My kindergrtners are high energy and eager to learn!
They live in a small, low-income neighborhood that surrounds the school. Many of them are English Language Learners and do not speak English primarily at home. Very few of my students have had a previous school experience, attended preschool or had the opportunity to learn and participate in academic activities at home. Kindergarten is a brand new experience for many, and I hope to make it an amazing adventure for them!
My Project
My students need 4 Leapfrog Tag Readers and 3 Tag Reader books to listen to many of our class's favorite books. The books will help them to build an understanding of how letters go together to make words, words make sentences and sentences make stories! They will learn comprehension skills through some of their favorite characters and learn vocabulary and fluency as well. My students are growing up in a world full of advancing technology. Many of our old teaching methods and reading strategies are not relevant in their lives. These Tag Readers bring technology and reading together in a very important way! My students will gain such a love for reading and learning with these amazing teaching tools.
Hart and Risley (2003) estimate that by the age of 4, there is a 30-million-word deficit in language experiences between children of higher and lower socioeconomic status.
Please help me to close this gap by providing my students with technology and books that will help them to learn fluency, vocabulary, comprehension and so much more!
More than three‑quarters 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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