Help me give my students a choice in their reading by building our classroom library.
FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Hogge's classroom raised $673
This project is fully funded
My Students
I teach 8th-grade students in a Title 1 school in Midwestern Illinois who have the ability to take a bad day and turn it around instantly with their smiles and teenage attitude. The smallest things can be exciting to them such as a new book, an addition to our flexible seating, a piece of candy, a bookmark, new pencils in the share cup.
These kids are teenagers who need love and relationships some days more than academics.
That relationship then leads them to continue to reach out to me after they move on to the high school. The relationships that are built allow them to share their stories from home, good and bad. They make my job not a job, but a passion.
My Project
When I walked into my 8th grade ELA classroom two summers ago, my first thought was: “Where are all the books?” Nevermind the staplers, the bulletin board paper, or the dry erase markers. For my students to be successful this year, they needed books. Lots of them. Preferably of high interest and readability.
Resources are tougher to come by in today’s educational world when compared to the past.
And no resource is more important to my students’ success than access to high quality and engaging books. While I first viewed this situation as a problem, I quickly observed that there were opportunities here as well. I could create my own classroom library! Better yet, what if my students and I chose the books we wanted to read together during the school year?
The purpose of this grant is to create a community of readers. We will do this by using the funds from your organization to build a classroom library together. These selections will be made collaboratively by the students and me. Literacy expert Stephen Krashen notes that research shows that classrooms with more books result in students who are better readers.
Another respected reading researcher Richard Allington found that having ownership in the process of selecting books for independent reading only furthers to enhance the benefits of access to many texts Access and ownership– this is the foundation for the purpose of this grant.
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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