Reading Through The Ages: Historical Fiction Books For Self-Selected Reading

Funded Apr 28, 2023

I am so appreciative of the generous donations that you made to fully fund our grant. We have many students that absolutely LOVE to read, and I am happy to offer some historical fiction novels to add to the options.

In our classroom, we study many topics from early attempts at colonization through the Civil War & Reconstruction, and it is so important to provide students with some "other" options for reading that give them a look into the lives of characters (real & fictional) with whom they can relate.

I taught ELA for MANY years, and I always incorporated choice reading into the curriculum, and the current ELA teachers do the same. My "offering" to them is to support the discipline in any way I can, and aside from the primary source investigations that we complete in here, I often use excerpts from books like the ones purchased to entice students to WANT to read the whole thing!

Thanks again, and my students are super excited to dig in!”

With gratitude,

Mrs. Lockwood