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  • Love Elementary School
  • Alameda, CA
  • 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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Being engaged and making connections to our own lives are critical steps to helping students learn. As humans, we make connections and engage in situations that we can identify with. Using books that have characters and situations that are similar to my students will help with the engagement and connections they make to become stronger readers. Reading also builds empathy. Having students read books with characters that are similar or different to them allows them to gain different perspectives of their peers and helps to create a community that takes care of each other. I plan to begin this work by focusing on my first ELA units of the school year and a Social Studies unit on voting. At the beginning of the school year, we focus on building a welcoming classroom culture, which includes learning about each other and our families. Students also learn how to write a narrative by focusing on writing about small moments in their lives. Many of the books we read focus on family, friends, gaining independence, and accepting others. A goal for the beginning of school year is to add books to my library that represent the different families and students that are in my classroom. 2020 is an election year fraught with concerns of voter suppression and COVID-19, so it is important to share more about the history of voting and what it means to vote to my first graders. I hope to use some of the texts attached to start these conversations with students during Social Studies.

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Being engaged and making connections to our own lives are critical steps to helping students learn. As humans, we make connections and engage in situations that we can identify with. Using books that have characters and situations that are similar to my students will help with the engagement and connections they make to become stronger readers. Reading also builds empathy. Having students read books with characters that are similar or different to them allows them to gain different perspectives of their peers and helps to create a community that takes care of each other. I plan to begin this work by focusing on my first ELA units of the school year and a Social Studies unit on voting. At the beginning of the school year, we focus on building a welcoming classroom culture, which includes learning about each other and our families. Students also learn how to write a narrative by focusing on writing about small moments in their lives. Many of the books we read focus on family, friends, gaining independence, and accepting others. A goal for the beginning of school year is to add books to my library that represent the different families and students that are in my classroom. 2020 is an election year fraught with concerns of voter suppression and COVID-19, so it is important to share more about the history of voting and what it means to vote to my first graders. I hope to use some of the texts attached to start these conversations with students during Social Studies.

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