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  • Naranca Elementary School
  • El Cajon, CA
  • More than three‑quarters 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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As a teacher in a low-income/high poverty school, my students lack exposure to current events nationally, as well as globally. It is my goal to expose students to a wide range of topics, subjects, and stories from around the globe. Time for Kids magazines will provide my students access to the importance of people, events, and issues in the news. Time For Kids is a weekly news magazine that engages students while exposing them to nonfiction writing. This weekly magazine offers different themes, topics and current events which directly correlate to the Common Core Standard of reading informational text. In addition, currents events are engaging and will motivate students to research, explore, and learn more about topics of interest on their own time. This useful instructional tool will build language, vocabulary, reading comprehension, problem solving, critical thinking, and listening skills. In addition, my readers and writers will be able to use the news articles as models for how skilled readers and writers construct meaning and relay ideas to others. Exposure to current events can provide students with a more well-developed, educated, and informed outlook when dealing with others. I believe it has the ability, if used correctly, to teach tolerance and an appreciation for those different than ourselves. News reading is a life skill and it is my hope that one day when I greet my students at the door in the morning one of them will say, "Did you see the news last night?"

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As a teacher in a low-income/high poverty school, my students lack exposure to current events nationally, as well as globally. It is my goal to expose students to a wide range of topics, subjects, and stories from around the globe. Time for Kids magazines will provide my students access to the importance of people, events, and issues in the news. Time For Kids is a weekly news magazine that engages students while exposing them to nonfiction writing. This weekly magazine offers different themes, topics and current events which directly correlate to the Common Core Standard of reading informational text. In addition, currents events are engaging and will motivate students to research, explore, and learn more about topics of interest on their own time. This useful instructional tool will build language, vocabulary, reading comprehension, problem solving, critical thinking, and listening skills. In addition, my readers and writers will be able to use the news articles as models for how skilled readers and writers construct meaning and relay ideas to others. Exposure to current events can provide students with a more well-developed, educated, and informed outlook when dealing with others. I believe it has the ability, if used correctly, to teach tolerance and an appreciation for those different than ourselves. News reading is a life skill and it is my hope that one day when I greet my students at the door in the morning one of them will say, "Did you see the news last night?"

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