Help me give my students toon books, which is a fancy name for graphic novels.
$594 goal
This project expired on April 26, 2020.
This project expired on April 26, 2020.
My Students
My first-grade class is a place of challenge, discovery, and growth-filled with many different opportunities for all students. They are creating a foundation for their future learning and education. My students face the challenges of living in a high poverty area, yet they come to school eager to learn every day.
The students grow and learn in different ways with different supports.
They bring to the class their wonderfully diverse backgrounds and an eagerness to learn English as many of them are ELL students and students with special needs. All of my first-grade students have unique needs and talents that help them grow as lifelong learners.
My Project
Many of us look back at our childhoods and can remember loving to reading comic books and graphic novels, even if we didn't like reading in school. Many of our students don't have this kind of access to comic books or graphic novels, in fact I don't think there is a comic book store within 5 miles of the school. As students who are newly acquiring the English language, most living at a poverty level, they don't have the ability to venture far to find these materials or they aren't aware of them.
We need to hook our youngest readers in the same way we were hooked at an early age, and the easiest way is to give them access to new texts in a medium they would love to read, comic books and graphic novels!
I want to expand our students knowledge of reading by sharing comic books and graphic novels in a wide variety of topics so they can learn to love reading. Comic or toon books teach so much more than people realize. They teach dialogue, reading pictures, looking at a whole page, character development, and problems and solutions in literature. Please help open this world of toon books to my students by giving them this collection that can reach readers at varying levels, and launch their understanding and love of reading.
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
32 students impacted
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