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  • Buena High School
  • Ventura, CA
  • More than half 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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Do you remember the first book that ever spoke to you and transformed the way you see the world? The first book you stayed up into the wee hours of the morning reading because you simply could not stop turning page? The first book you read that when the story ended, you felt as though you were losing a friend because you so identified by the protagonist? As I embark on my first year teaching high school English, I aspire to build a classroom library full of texts that will kindle a love for reading and inspire students to become the citizens and leaders tomorrow needs. Ultimately, I desire to provide students with access to high-interest, culturally relevant texts in the hopes they become life-long readers, all while increasing their reading fluency and stamina. One of the most important abilities our students need for success beyond high school is to read well across a variety of genres. Therefore, I chose a combination of fiction and non-fiction, graphic novels and traditional novels, popular authors and more up-and-coming authors across a variety of Lexile levels to match the diversity existing in my classroom. I have also included a few odds and ends supplies, sticky notes and highlighters, which will help my students learn annotation strategies for literary analysis. With these books, we will be able to spend class time each week on independent reading, all while building reading fluency and stamina which will surely transfer to our whole-class text studies. Most critically, I'd like students to view school as a place where they are exposed to current titles that they will enjoy reading.

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Do you remember the first book that ever spoke to you and transformed the way you see the world? The first book you stayed up into the wee hours of the morning reading because you simply could not stop turning page? The first book you read that when the story ended, you felt as though you were losing a friend because you so identified by the protagonist? As I embark on my first year teaching high school English, I aspire to build a classroom library full of texts that will kindle a love for reading and inspire students to become the citizens and leaders tomorrow needs. Ultimately, I desire to provide students with access to high-interest, culturally relevant texts in the hopes they become life-long readers, all while increasing their reading fluency and stamina. One of the most important abilities our students need for success beyond high school is to read well across a variety of genres. Therefore, I chose a combination of fiction and non-fiction, graphic novels and traditional novels, popular authors and more up-and-coming authors across a variety of Lexile levels to match the diversity existing in my classroom. I have also included a few odds and ends supplies, sticky notes and highlighters, which will help my students learn annotation strategies for literary analysis. With these books, we will be able to spend class time each week on independent reading, all while building reading fluency and stamina which will surely transfer to our whole-class text studies. Most critically, I'd like students to view school as a place where they are exposed to current titles that they will enjoy reading.

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