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I teach in Dallas at a school where the majority of students are Hispanic and a larger number are English language learners. Despite the challenges they face, my students remain full of passion and light. They are kind, determined, opinionated young people, and I have great faith in their potential to become world changers through whatever avenue they seek to pursue. For many, literacy is a gap in the ladder to their success that it is my duty to fill. In the era of social media, many of my students are not readers. This, in combination with many of them still working to master the language, has helped create a gap in their literacy skills. While many of us learn grammar, vocabulary, and mastery of syntax through reading, my kids are not doing the same. As sophomores, they are behind in their reading and writing abilities with the ACT/SAT and college applications growing ever nearer. My goal is to create a classroom library that will help mold my students into readers. I am looking to get a large selection of high interest books for them to tap into during silent sustained reading time and in their free time. The selection I have now has already started to get the kids excited. Many of them have enjoyed I'll Give You The Sun and Carrie, and one student was pumped to read The Road. Clearly, we've got a wide variety of interests and we also have a wide variety of reading levels! Anything helps, and I am always looking for suggestions.

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I teach in Dallas at a school where the majority of students are Hispanic and a larger number are English language learners. Despite the challenges they face, my students remain full of passion and light. They are kind, determined, opinionated young people, and I have great faith in their potential to become world changers through whatever avenue they seek to pursue. For many, literacy is a gap in the ladder to their success that it is my duty to fill. In the era of social media, many of my students are not readers. This, in combination with many of them still working to master the language, has helped create a gap in their literacy skills. While many of us learn grammar, vocabulary, and mastery of syntax through reading, my kids are not doing the same. As sophomores, they are behind in their reading and writing abilities with the ACT/SAT and college applications growing ever nearer. My goal is to create a classroom library that will help mold my students into readers. I am looking to get a large selection of high interest books for them to tap into during silent sustained reading time and in their free time. The selection I have now has already started to get the kids excited. Many of them have enjoyed I'll Give You The Sun and Carrie, and one student was pumped to read The Road. Clearly, we've got a wide variety of interests and we also have a wide variety of reading levels! Anything helps, and I am always looking for suggestions.

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