My students need a collection of books, including 5 copies each of 10 titles, from "Bridge to Terabithia" to "Skin I'm In".
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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 special needs and at-risk students need books to aid them in dealing with the "hands they've been dealt". I am a school social worker and I facilitate groups of students who are dealing with struggles that range from having a disability, living in poverty, having parent(s) who are in jail, living in single-parent households, to things such as drug and gang activity. My students are ages 6-12. They come to school with so much on their mind already that they often miss out on the academic content because they are worrying about whether dad will be home when they get there, or whether mom will be arrested again for a probation violation.
I have started a few bibliotherapy groups at school that have really taken off with the students. We are using fictional stories to aid the students in understanding their own problems through a character that they can identify with. We read the book, discuss the obstacle and the characters' solutions, and the students get a chance to implement this into their own lives as a result. We have seen a lot of progress through this delivery, and my students are becoming more and more creative about how they can deal with their own everyday issues.
The problem that we currently have is lack of reading materials. Students are showing up day after day with an interest in participating in these groups, students who have never cared about reading in their life, and we don't have the materials to take them on. More of these books will allow us to address these issues in a way that is not like the traditional "therapy" model, and in a way that the students have clung to and really taken off with.
Your help will make it possible for my students to see that they can't change their situations, but they can control how it affects their life.
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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