Funded Jan 16, 2016The bookbinder has been used to create "Learning Logs." In order to assist in improving the students reading comprehension, students are participating in Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR). This program has learning logs for each time the students read collaboratively. I bound these logs for each student. This has assisted in keeping all their work in one place for them to review and learn from. They see their grades and they can look back for reference. The students love these bounded learning logs and truly appreciate being organized and cared for.
Although we have only received one issue of Time For Kids, the students love the graphics, visuals and photographs. They are excited about receiving them weekly in September. They were totally interested in the articles and the beginner ELL's appreciated that although they couldn't read all the words they understood the gist from the photos. Students also appreciated having the colored pencils to enhance the drawings they made to show comprehension.
We are now studying poetry and students are writing their own poems based on a real world poems they can relate to. We will be using the colored pencils to decorate the covers of the poetry books students will be creating and then bind with the binding machine.
I can't thank you enough for your generosity and sense of humanity for these children. I don't have resources so all this has truly come in handy.”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Diglio