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• Pay Reading with Reading: Battle of the Books!

  Funded Feb 19, 2025

  Thank you, DonorsChoose.org and our private donors for supporting our project! We've had a great year so far with monthly book club meetings to recruit members, celebrate reading, and share our love of books. In April 2025, our Teen Readers' Choice Book Club will select the Shreve Teen Readers' Choice book of 2025 from the LTRC list of nominated titles. We will celebrate our victory with a voting party! From our book club group, we recruited 6 enthusiastic readers to compete for our school at the Battle of the Books. We provided copies of the books to team members, thanks to your help this year! They are developing quiz questions to prepare for that round of the competition and have planned a dramatic reading and script based on a book of poetry from the Battle list. They will compete in May 2025 for the district title. Your contributions will provide books for the high school competitors as rewards for participation! We love to pay reading with reading!!

  Our approach to reading is founded on academic research and the understanding that reading impacts social and emotional development and all areas of academic achievement. Anderson, Wilson, and Fielding's 1988 study "found that time spent reading books was the best predictor of a student's reading proficiency." Additionally, in 1998 Cunningham and Stanovich "isolated the benefits of reading experience from other factors," such as poverty, and found that even for students with lower general intelligence and reading skills, extensive reading was linked to superior performance on measures of general knowledge, vocabulary, spelling, verbal fluency, and reading comprehension."

  The volume of students' reading significantly impacts achievement. According to the National Council of Teachers of English "The volume students read is critical to the advancement of their reading skills and overall academic success." In alignment with the NCTE, we strive "to build habitual readers with conscious reading identities." To meet this goal, we prioritize engagement and access, two critical factors to fostering high-volume readers.

  Student choice and access to books that represent a wide range of identities and experiences are essential motivating readers. As Rudine Sims Bishop has argued, books should offer readers mirrors, windows, and sliding glass doors to their identities and identities of others. Your donation provided students access to books that represent a wide range of characters and experiences that illustrate intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, and ability.

  Thank you, donors, for supporting our goals to foster engaged, voluminous reading at our school!”

  With gratitude,

  Mrs. B.

• Teen Readers' Choice Book Club II

  Funded Feb 12, 2025

  Thank you, DonorsChoose.org and our private donors for supporting our project! We had a great kickoff event this year with a group of more than 20 students who enjoyed learning about this year's LTRC books and upcoming events in our book club, including author visits and community events like our Battle of the Books.

  Our approach to reading is founded on academic research and the understanding that reading impacts social and emotional development and all areas of academic achievement. Anderson, Wilson, and Fielding's 1988 study "found that time spent reading books was the best predictor of a student's reading proficiency." Additionally, in 1998 Cunningham and Stanovich "isolated the benefits of reading experience from other factors," such as poverty, and found that even for students with lower general intelligence and reading skills, extensive reading was linked to superior performance on measures of general knowledge, vocabulary, spelling, verbal fluency, and reading comprehension."

  The volume of students' reading significantly impacts achievement. According to the National Council of Teachers of English "The volume students read is critical to the advancement of their reading skills and overall academic success." In alignment with the NCTE, we strive "to build habitual readers with conscious reading identities." To meet this goal, we prioritize engagement and access, two critical factors to fostering high-volume readers.

  Student choice and access to books that represent a wide range of identities and experiences are essential motivating readers. As Rudine Sims Bishop has argued, books should offer readers mirrors, windows, and sliding glass doors to their identities and identities of others. Your donation provided students access to books that represent a wide range of characters and experiences that illustrate intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, ability, and sexual orientation. We've hooked readers with award winning (and sometimes controversial) books like Call Him Jack, a biography of Jack Robinson, The Q, a story of a group of teens surviving after a pandemic, and Love Radio, a story of Black joy, culture, and relationships.

  Thank you, donors, for supporting our goals to foster engaged, voluminous reading at our school!”

  With gratitude,

  Mrs. B.

  This classroom project was brought to life by Panda Cares.

• Virtual Author Visit with Ebony LaDelle

  Funded Dec 14, 2024

  We invited nominated author Ebony LaDelle to talk about her novel "Love Radio" at our Shreve Teen Readers' Choice Book Club. Students talked directly with author Ebony LaDelle in a live ZOOM session. Ms. LaDelle shared her experience and inspiration for her novel Love Radio. Students engaged with the author during the session. They asked their own questions during the session and gained insight into the process of writing, publishing, and developing ideas for a novel. An author's insights and experiences, combined with a casual, small group setting, helped students see multiple perspectives and understand how other readers might approach the book. Some students talked about how they connected to the characters; for example, one student was drawn to the fact that a character was dealing with multiple sclerosis, a condition that she also has. Students asked questions about college experience, publishing, and advice for life. We are so thankful that our students had this experience!”

  With gratitude,

  Mrs. B.

• Teen Readers' Choice Book Club: Battle of the Books

  Funded Dec 20, 2024

  Thank you, DonorsChoose.org and our private donors for supporting our project! We had a great kickoff event this year with a group of more than 20 students who enjoyed learning about this year's LTRC books and upcoming events in our book club, including author visits and community events like our Battle of the Books.

  Our approach to reading is founded on academic research and the understanding that reading impacts social and emotional development and all areas of academic achievement. Anderson, Wilson, and Fielding's 1988 study "found that time spent reading books was the best predictor of a student's reading proficiency." Additionally, in 1998 Cunningham and Stanovich "isolated the benefits of reading experience from other factors," such as poverty, and found that even for students with lower general intelligence and reading skills, extensive reading was linked to superior performance on measures of general knowledge, vocabulary, spelling, verbal fluency, and reading comprehension."

  The volume of students' reading significantly impacts achievement. According to the National Council of Teachers of English "The volume students read is critical to the advancement of their reading skills and overall academic success." In alignment with the NCTE, we strive "to build habitual readers with conscious reading identities." To meet this goal, we prioritize engagement and access, two critical factors to fostering high-volume readers.

  Student choice and access to books that represent a wide range of identities and experiences are essential motivating readers. As Rudine Sims Bishop has argued, books should offer readers mirrors, windows, and sliding glass doors to their identities and identities of others. Your donation provided students access to books that represent a wide range of characters and experiences that illustrate intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, ability, and sexual orientation. We've hooked readers with award winning (and sometimes controversial) books like Call Him Jack, a biography of Jack Robinson, The Q, a story of a group of teens surviving after a pandemic, and Love Radio, a story of Black joy, culture, and relationships.

  Thank you, donors, for supporting our goals to foster engaged, voluminous reading at our school!”

  With gratitude,

  Mrs. B.

• Teen Readers' Choice Book Club

  Funded Dec 13, 2024

  Thank you, DonorsChoose.org and our private donors for supporting our project! We had a great kickoff event this year with a group of more than 20 students who enjoyed learning about this year's LTRC books and upcoming events in our book club, including author visits and community events like our Battle of the Books.

  Our approach to reading is founded on academic research and the understanding that reading impacts social and emotional development and all areas of academic achievement. Anderson, Wilson, and Fielding's 1988 study "found that time spent reading books was the best predictor of a student's reading proficiency." Additionally, in 1998 Cunningham and Stanovich "isolated the benefits of reading experience from other factors," such as poverty, and found that even for students with lower general intelligence and reading skills, extensive reading was linked to superior performance on measures of general knowledge, vocabulary, spelling, verbal fluency, and reading comprehension."

  The volume of students' reading significantly impacts achievement. According to the National Council of Teachers of English "The volume students read is critical to the advancement of their reading skills and overall academic success." In alignment with the NCTE, we strive "to build habitual readers with conscious reading identities." To meet this goal, we prioritize engagement and access, two critical factors to fostering high-volume readers.

  Student choice and access to books that represent a wide range of identities and experiences are essential motivating readers. As Rudine Sims Bishop has argued, books should offer readers mirrors, windows, and sliding glass doors to their identities and identities of others. Your donation provided students access to books that represent a wide range of characters and experiences that illustrate intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, ability, and sexual orientation. We've hooked readers with award winning (and sometimes controversial) books like Call Him Jack, a biography of Jack Robinson, The Q, a story of a group of teens surviving after a pandemic, and Love Radio, a story of Black joy, culture, and relationships.

  Thank you, donors, for supporting our goals to foster engaged, voluminous reading at our school!”

  With gratitude,

  Mrs. B.

• Teen Readers' Choice Book Club Battle of the Books

  Funded Nov 5, 2024

  Thank you for supporting our effort to get free copies of Kayvion Lewis's novel to give away at her in-person visit and book signing event in our school library!! Kayvion Lewis is from our city and was so generous to spend her afternoon visiting with our Teen Book Club! She visited us in person and spoke to over 20 students. She delivered a presentation on her journey to publishing her first book and signing a movie deal and she signed books so that every student who attended left with a free copy to read! Students were so inspired to start reading after meeting Kayvion Lewis! Leaving with a copy of her book ensures that they will have access and that they will get to add a book to their own personal library. Thank you, DonorsChoose.org and our private donors for supporting our project!”

  With gratitude,

  Mrs. B.

  This classroom project was brought to life by Reese's Book Club and 2 other donors.

• Teen Book Club: Thieves Gambit Book Signing with Kayvion Lewis

  Funded Oct 31, 2024

  Thank you for supporting our effort to get free copies of Kayvion Lewis's novel to give away at her in-person visit and book signing event in our school library!! Kayvion Lewis is from our city and was so generous to spend her afternoon visiting with our Teen Book Club! She visited us in person and spoke to over 20 students. She delivered a presentation on her journey to publishing her first book and signing a movie deal and she signed books so that every student who attended left with a free copy to read! Students were so inspired to start reading after meeting Kayvion Lewis! Leaving with a copy of her book ensures that they will have access and that they will get to add a book to their own personal library. Thank you, DonorsChoose.org and our private donors for supporting our project!”

  With gratitude,

  Mrs. B.

  This classroom project was brought to life by Reese's Book Club and 3 other donors.