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  • Keller Elementary School
  • Mesa, AZ
  • 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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My students are, in general, not reading difficult text that requires them to analyze and do deeper thinking. By getting novels in front of them, we can incorporate more reading skills into one text and get a real feel for what good readers do/think about. Engaging, rigorous texts make for a better education and snippets of stories just don't cut it. Students do better when reading an entire story and using their reading strategies to analyze it and break it down. Having meaningful books in front of them with a similar aged main character who tackles a realistic situation will encourage my kids to not only read higher text, but engage with it and understand it on a more complex level. We'll read the novel, do character study, learn to understand vocabulary in context, and learn about authors' purposeful choices and their impact. We will delve into discussions with each other about the plot line and our reading skills. As we use these resources, we will be collaborating with one another and then incorporating reading standards and extending beyond the text with our writing standards.

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My students are, in general, not reading difficult text that requires them to analyze and do deeper thinking. By getting novels in front of them, we can incorporate more reading skills into one text and get a real feel for what good readers do/think about. Engaging, rigorous texts make for a better education and snippets of stories just don't cut it. Students do better when reading an entire story and using their reading strategies to analyze it and break it down. Having meaningful books in front of them with a similar aged main character who tackles a realistic situation will encourage my kids to not only read higher text, but engage with it and understand it on a more complex level. We'll read the novel, do character study, learn to understand vocabulary in context, and learn about authors' purposeful choices and their impact. We will delve into discussions with each other about the plot line and our reading skills. As we use these resources, we will be collaborating with one another and then incorporating reading standards and extending beyond the text with our writing standards.

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