Showing the Students a New World through BOOKS

Funded Apr 7, 2022

You will never understand the impact that your items have made on my classes. The students are able to use the materials to help them dive deeper into the books that they are reading. Not only have I been able to print school issued (and ones that I have purchased) PDF's of the books (some students prefer a hard copy versus a computer version, like myself). With this, they are able to annotate within the book to gain better understanding, show areas of confusion (utilizing the highlighters), and decipher words that are foreign to them. Some of us have to just "write it out". The highlighters alone bring a glow to their faces because it brings the words forward for them. I am utilizing everything that you wonderful donors sent. The students are able to use the pencils to underline things that they would like to discuss, the binders are used to hold printed PDF's, and the bookcase is used to hold some of the hundreds of books that I have in my room for student use. We will continue working with the items sent to continually bring books to life so that my junior level students will see how important reading is and gain a love for it like I did. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.”

With gratitude,

Ms. Johnson