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Cambridge Rindge & Latin School
Cambridge, MA
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Literacy in the Classroom: Hooking High Schoolers
Funded Apr 16, 2015
I am overjoyed with gratitude to all of you who gave to fund my project. It has been incredibly exciting to check my project's progress these last days and share with my students the upcoming plans for our class.
Because of your generosity my students will be able to excitedly page through brand new books, and come to love reading more and more. I am committed to sharing my love of reading with my students, and with these new books, I will now have more high-interest texts for my students' enjoyment.
Thank you again-- your gifts are invaluable.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Wilhelmy

My students are readers looking for themselves in books. They want the books to reflect their lives; diverse, complicated, yet exciting. Some students have been reading complicated texts for years, never stuttering when picking up a 300+ page book. Others, however, feel out of place in our school's library, fearing that they will be labeled as an outsider in a club of readers. My school would love to claim that we include all students in all parts of the academic community, but I have heard students proudly proclaim "I've never even been to the library." In an academically competitive school, I have witnessed students 'passing' as readers. These students want to share the books they are reading with others, but for a multitude of reasons never commit to reading. This unfortunate reality is seen as non-reading students fall further behind their reading peers.

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Literacy in the Classroom: Hooking High Schoolers

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