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  • Lamar Middle School
  • Irving, TX
  • 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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The books and boards in this project will go to directly teaching literary skills that my students are missing. Both items will go towards my goal of giving my students multiple ways to hear and visually see concepts that are often abstract that they need. Picture books are the best resource for this. The use of whiteboards is almost a daily activity in my classroom for both practice in both in the learning of spelling and in the handwriting component of the systematic structured literacy program. They need the large boards in order to give them room to use the larger muscles.

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The books and boards in this project will go to directly teaching literary skills that my students are missing. Both items will go towards my goal of giving my students multiple ways to hear and visually see concepts that are often abstract that they need. Picture books are the best resource for this. The use of whiteboards is almost a daily activity in my classroom for both practice in both in the learning of spelling and in the handwriting component of the systematic structured literacy program. They need the large boards in order to give them room to use the larger muscles.

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