Can You Read or Hear Me?
Funded Jan 26, 2024I started at this school 3 years ago in a classroom with little to no supplies and even less books. I teach a subject that is required. Many of the students have a great disdain for reading books much less novels. As a 9th grade intensive reading teacher, it is imperative that students not just read but comprehend what they are reading. The task of teaching students who hate reading so much is great especially when the resources are so few. The classes started reading the first novel in the series and it became a class favorite. Students who hated reading now were asking if they could take the book home and finish reading it before class. Some students finished reading that same day and were begging for the next installment. That is when I created this Donor's Choose Project to see if we could acquire a class set for the two remaining book in the trilogy.
I teach intensive reading to students that with emotional and behavioral disabilities, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), intellectual disabilities as well as specific learning disabilities. Most of the students have limited cognitive abilities, some mental illnesses, and short attention spans making reading problematic for them. My school has a population of 98% of the students on free or reduced lunch. Most of my students have limited access to book and struggle to read and as a result.
Your donation allowed students access to the series they enjoy and gives me as the teacher the tools to help them continue learning. Thank you for your very generous donation to my students and in taking an interest in the lives of my students. As a reading teacher, having access to great books that students actually enjoy reading is so exciting. Knowing that the students will want to read fills me with joy. Knowing that that your donation can turn seemly uninterest reading students who struggle to read into readers truly fills me with immense happiness.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Lee