Eager 1st Grade Readers, Need Your Help.. They Need Books!

Funded Feb 12, 2017

Thank you so much for giving my students the gift of an enhance library. Our new books, allow my students to get many opportunities to read. They are so trilled to have new books in their library. They will forever be thankful of your generous donations. It means so much to them. They are able to enrich their vocabulary acquisition. If they loved reading before and will often re-read the books in our small library, now they are often changing books because they are eager to read the next series of their books. My students can't seem to put them down. They are often asking me to go to the library and change their books.

Your donation has expanded a new world of knowledge where my students are getting lost in books. Their vocabulary is expanding. The ability to have a variety of books to choose has allowed my students to engage in different genre's, series, and authors. My students often speak to each other about the books they are reading and how they can't wait until they read it to understand how good they are. They come to school every morning ready to share the books they have been reading.

In addition, your books have allowed me as a teacher to use the books during my guided reading instruction. Allowing me to focus on teaching and guiding my students how to read books, understand characters, feelings, connections among books. My students are learning so fast. They are putting all I've taught them in practice when they read the books independently. They even apply it to other classroom books. My students have moved about 7-9 reading levels. Students move usually 5 reading levels per school year. This is the proof of the love they have for reading. They are always finding ways to better themselves through reading opportunities. I showed them the tricks a good reader does and my students put it into practice.

Every single of my students and myself are very grateful for this amazing opportunity to allow them to travel through the world of literacy as they read these books. Thanks to your generosity my students are acquiring vocabulary, enriched reading opportunities of deepening their understanding of characters as they read their books, and simply having fun as they read new books that take their imagination to the next level.

We will forever be thankful!”

With gratitude,

Mrs. Gomez