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  • Avondale Elementary School
  • Spring Valley, 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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I have never posted on DonorsChoose before. But seeing some of my low readers engage with the Amulet series of graphic novels that I just happened to pick up this summer, sparked an idea. I can't teach them to pick a "just right book" if they don't even want to read in the first place. Graphic novels hook kids...they are visually exciting and the stories are highly engaging to the 10 year old mind. I have been teaching for over a decade in math/science classrooms and the start of this school year with my fifth graders has been eye-opening in terms of what it takes to get kids to actually want to read and write. Every day I protect 30 minutes for KBAR- kick back and read time! I want my students to enjoy reading for pleasure. This is not their norm but I want it to become their norm. I read my book too and I model what good readers do. We turn on soft classical music and we find comfortable spots on the rug or classroom couch. Today I about fell off my chair when the reading time was up because I thought my main character had just died and I excitedly said we needed to KBAR for 2 more minutes so I could find out. The kids loved it! With this DonorsChoose project, I can get more engaging texts in front of my most vulnerable students. The ones who say they "fail" at everything and who "hate reading". My goal is to change that and create a classroom culture that celebrates reading and hopefully helps my students become lifelong readers!

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I have never posted on DonorsChoose before. But seeing some of my low readers engage with the Amulet series of graphic novels that I just happened to pick up this summer, sparked an idea. I can't teach them to pick a "just right book" if they don't even want to read in the first place. Graphic novels hook kids...they are visually exciting and the stories are highly engaging to the 10 year old mind. I have been teaching for over a decade in math/science classrooms and the start of this school year with my fifth graders has been eye-opening in terms of what it takes to get kids to actually want to read and write. Every day I protect 30 minutes for KBAR- kick back and read time! I want my students to enjoy reading for pleasure. This is not their norm but I want it to become their norm. I read my book too and I model what good readers do. We turn on soft classical music and we find comfortable spots on the rug or classroom couch. Today I about fell off my chair when the reading time was up because I thought my main character had just died and I excitedly said we needed to KBAR for 2 more minutes so I could find out. The kids loved it! With this DonorsChoose project, I can get more engaging texts in front of my most vulnerable students. The ones who say they "fail" at everything and who "hate reading". My goal is to change that and create a classroom culture that celebrates reading and hopefully helps my students become lifelong readers!

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