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  • Palma Ceia Elementary School
  • Hayward, CA
  • 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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Second graders in Room 119 are creative and full of curiosity. Students are reading at a range of levels, some below grade level and some meeting grade level. Approximately half the class is transitioning from a bilingual 1st grade classroom, and students are eager to transfer their Spanish literacy to English. All of these readers need access to books at their just-right level, as well as tools to help them monitor their understanding and stay motivated. Clean new boxes to make our leveled library attractive are part of this. Chromebooks are the other piece. Technology and technological literacy are essential to the growth of students today. I plan to purchase a classroom license for RazKids, which allows all students to read and answer questions about books at their just-right level. The Chromebooks from this project will allow me to make RazKids a regular literacy station. Kids find this hugely motivating, and regular interaction with technology will help them to develop the familiarity with technology that is necessary for success in the 21st century. What's more, beginning in the second grade, students at our school take AR quizzes about books they have read. Like RazKids, AR provides me with information about where students are struggling in their independent reading, and encourages children to monitor their own understanding. Watching their sunflowers grow as they answer questions correctly is a *huge* motivator even for reluctant readers, and AR quizzes bring the work kids are doing with RazKids to bear on our fabulous classroom library. These Chromebooks will allow my students to spend their time thinking about their reading, not getting frustrated with buggy, antediluvian technology.

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Second graders in Room 119 are creative and full of curiosity. Students are reading at a range of levels, some below grade level and some meeting grade level. Approximately half the class is transitioning from a bilingual 1st grade classroom, and students are eager to transfer their Spanish literacy to English. All of these readers need access to books at their just-right level, as well as tools to help them monitor their understanding and stay motivated. Clean new boxes to make our leveled library attractive are part of this. Chromebooks are the other piece. Technology and technological literacy are essential to the growth of students today. I plan to purchase a classroom license for RazKids, which allows all students to read and answer questions about books at their just-right level. The Chromebooks from this project will allow me to make RazKids a regular literacy station. Kids find this hugely motivating, and regular interaction with technology will help them to develop the familiarity with technology that is necessary for success in the 21st century. What's more, beginning in the second grade, students at our school take AR quizzes about books they have read. Like RazKids, AR provides me with information about where students are struggling in their independent reading, and encourages children to monitor their own understanding. Watching their sunflowers grow as they answer questions correctly is a *huge* motivator even for reluctant readers, and AR quizzes bring the work kids are doing with RazKids to bear on our fabulous classroom library. These Chromebooks will allow my students to spend their time thinking about their reading, not getting frustrated with buggy, antediluvian technology.

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