My students need 20 copies each of the following books: "Tuck Everlasting", "Baseball in April and Other Stories" and "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory".
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.
My bookworms are hungry for books and competition. I am currently a 5th grade teacher in south Texas. My school has 99% of its students on free or reduced lunch. A majority of my students learn and speak English only during the school day.
How will my students travel beyond the confines of their school and neighborhood? How will my students further their knowledge of the English language outside of the typical school day? How will my kids become our world's future leaders? The answer is: my bookworms will devour books this year.
How will we devour books outside the typical school day hours? I will start a book club that involves students, teachers and parents. In order to begin this club I have chosen three books that will prove to invest students in reading and generate discussion amongst our club. We will read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Tuck Everlasting and Baseball in April. I will need 20 books for each title so that all students will have a book for the club.
My club will also invite parents to come in afterschool and be a part of our group discussion. We will use these books to educate parents on how they can question students and listen to them read; even if the book is not in their native language. The club will work on helping students develop their independent reading skills and love of reading. The book club will fuel the fire of students' reading independently.
Students will compete to see which students can read the most books by the end of the year. Students in our school hallway will have individualized chains and will add links for every one hundred pages that they read. The book club will be essential in showing students how much they can accomplish when they read and understand.
My bookworms are HUNGRY for knowledge. Your support will fuel their passion for reading and will allow them to become self-sufficient readers by the end of the school year. Help shape our young leaders' futures!
Nearly all students from low‑income households
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