My students need access to high interest books to discover themselves as readers.
$483 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.
After 23 years in elementary school, I've transitioned to teaching middle school...DR Academy in Indio, California to be more precise. I moved positions in late March and dove in feet first. I not only shifted my age group, but also the community I serve, and I've learned a few things.
- Middle school kids need a champion, a nurturer, a truth teller and a reader more than ever!
- 79% of the student body at DRA is socioeconomically disadvantaged.
-A majority of my students do not identify as readers, and have limited access to relevant, high interest books.
I root my teaching in the belief that literacy lifts people out of their own experiences. It builds empathy, strengthens overall academics, and readers are shown to be more successful in life. More importantly, reluctant young adult readers need to connect with characters and events in books.
My Project
Did you know that kids who read are more successful in school, in life, and in their careers? It's absolutely true, and as a sixth grade teacher, it's both my privilege and my responsibility to cultivate readers for life. This is why the Teamhayball classroom library is so important to our daily read alouds, book talks and independent reading!
By donating, you create a lasting legacy- a book that will certainly connect readers to history, to culture outside their own and to the idea that reading takes us places.
Titles like Amal Unbound, See You in the Cosmos & Drawn Together make wonderful read alouds & spark important class discussion tying to current events and even our world's history.
There is nothing like witnessing a sixth grader who discovers their first favorite book. Knowing you played a hand in that transformation is what serving others is all about.
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