Many of my students are struggling readers and some are English language learners. Many are below grade level in their reading levels and need more beginning chapter books. My goal is for them to improve their reading and foster a love of reading.
My school is in a progressively growing rural community with total enrollment in Pre-K through 5th grade of a little over 550 students.
The town population is approximately 70,000, with 17 elementary schools in the district. The diversity at our school comes from the economic levels with approximately 45% of our students receiving free or reduced lunches. I teach in a self-contained second grade classroom. I have twenty-five students.
My Project
My students are beginning to get into reading series and find their love for reading. Both my boys and girls are really getting into the reading genre of mystery. Our classroom does not have very many books or series of mystery. They have begged to add the mystery series in this project so they can have a multitude of books and series that they can read as partners and groups in the class. They are interested in doing a series study. To do this they need a variety of books within the same series so they can compare and discuss them.
More than a third 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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