The Magic of Storytelling: Learning to Read in Kindergarten
My students need the Fairy Tales STEAM Kit to help them integrate literacy, creative expression, and social/emotional development. This kit includes hardcover books, storytelling aids, STEM activities, as well as puppets.
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 Students
My kindergarten students are English language learners whose school is located near low-cost housing projects, in a high poverty area, in California. All students receive free breakfast and lunch. Most students come from families whose parents cannot support them with literacy or homework, as they cannot speak sufficient English, or are sometimes illiterate. Additionally, some of them spend most of their day at school, in an afterschool program, as their parents are not able to care for them at home.
The majority of my students begin the year with little or no knowledge of age-appropriate skills, such as letter and number recognition.
Some have not attended preschool. Notwithstanding, the work we do in our classroom, to meet the needs of all students, by the end of the year, some are far below grade level.
My Project
In kindergarten, we begin the year by reading familiar stories that children know and love to hear again and again. This is because young students are not yet reading conventionally, but can read the story by looking at, and pointing to the pictures.
When young children can retell a story with expression, gestures, as well as from a character's perspective, they are actually reading!
The Fairy Tales STEAM kit will help my young students to develop a love of storytelling and reading by integrating literacy, creative expression and social/emotional development.
All of these areas are crucial at this stage of development!
Nearly all 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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