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  • George Washington Carver Middle School
  • Los Angeles, CA
  • Nearly all 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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Students feeling ownership of their own books and having consistency in a novel will not only create a strong interest for reading, but build reading comprehension which is holding a majority of our students back. When students build confidence in their fluency, their success trajectory is endless. My project will build literacy and imagination. Students need a novel that intrigues them that they cannot see to put down and I feel that Harry Potter does that. I read a chapter with my students now and every single face was into the book waiting to find out what was next. ..

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Students feeling ownership of their own books and having consistency in a novel will not only create a strong interest for reading, but build reading comprehension which is holding a majority of our students back. When students build confidence in their fluency, their success trajectory is endless. My project will build literacy and imagination. Students need a novel that intrigues them that they cannot see to put down and I feel that Harry Potter does that. I read a chapter with my students now and every single face was into the book waiting to find out what was next. ..

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