More than half of students from low鈥慽ncome households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education.
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When I walked into my 8th grade ELA classroom two summers ago, my first thought was: 鈥淲here are all the books?鈥 Nevermind the staplers, the bulletin board paper, or the dry erase markers. For my students to be successful this year, they needed books. Lots of them. Preferably of high interest and readability.
Resources are tougher to come by in today鈥檚 educational world when compared to the past. And no resource is more important to my students鈥 success than access to high quality and engaging books. While I first viewed this situation as a problem, I quickly observed that there were opportunities here as well. I could create my own classroom library! Better yet, what if my students and I chose the books we wanted to read together during the school year?
The purpose of this grant is to create a community of readers. We will do this by using the funds from your organization to build a classroom library together. These selections will be made collaboratively by the students and me. Literacy expert Stephen Krashen notes that research shows that classrooms with more books result in students who are better readers.
Another respected reading researcher Richard Allington found that having ownership in the process of selecting books for independent reading only furthers to enhance the benefits of access to many texts Access and ownership鈥 this is the foundation for the purpose of this grant.
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When I walked into my 8th grade ELA classroom two summers ago, my first thought was: 鈥淲here are all the books?鈥 Nevermind the staplers, the bulletin board paper, or the dry erase markers. For my students to be successful this year, they needed books. Lots of them. Preferably of high interest and readability.
Resources are tougher to come by in today鈥檚 educational world when compared to the past. And no resource is more important to my students鈥 success than access to high quality and engaging books. While I first viewed this situation as a problem, I quickly observed that there were opportunities here as well. I could create my own classroom library! Better yet, what if my students and I chose the books we wanted to read together during the school year?
The purpose of this grant is to create a community of readers. We will do this by using the funds from your organization to build a classroom library together. These selections will be made collaboratively by the students and me. Literacy expert Stephen Krashen notes that research shows that classrooms with more books result in students who are better readers.
Another respected reading researcher Richard Allington found that having ownership in the process of selecting books for independent reading only furthers to enhance the benefits of access to many texts Access and ownership鈥 this is the foundation for the purpose of this grant.