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  • Challenge Preparatory Elementary School
  • Far Rockaway, NY
  • 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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Our scholars are so low in reading and do not have a selection of books in their classroom libraries to go 'book shopping' for. This breaks my heart. My goal and vision for our school is to watch these young Kindergarteners and First graders be excited and bright eyed when it's time to go 'book shopping'. They will walk over to their beautiful classroom library filled with colorful and interesting books to choose from. They will go to their leveled reading bin and have the opportunity to browse through a selection of books to choose from to put in their book baggie and to practice reading independently and practice using their reading strategies every day to grow stronger as a reader and strengthen their comprehension and fluency. My hope is that our scholars will learn to LOVE reading and believe in themselves that they CAN read! To look forward to book shopping because of the now wide selection of brightly colored, interesting pictures, just right leveled text, and characters they love. Thank you so very much for your time to read this!

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Our scholars are so low in reading and do not have a selection of books in their classroom libraries to go 'book shopping' for. This breaks my heart. My goal and vision for our school is to watch these young Kindergarteners and First graders be excited and bright eyed when it's time to go 'book shopping'. They will walk over to their beautiful classroom library filled with colorful and interesting books to choose from. They will go to their leveled reading bin and have the opportunity to browse through a selection of books to choose from to put in their book baggie and to practice reading independently and practice using their reading strategies every day to grow stronger as a reader and strengthen their comprehension and fluency. My hope is that our scholars will learn to LOVE reading and believe in themselves that they CAN read! To look forward to book shopping because of the now wide selection of brightly colored, interesting pictures, just right leveled text, and characters they love. Thank you so very much for your time to read this!

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