Reading With Comfort

Funded Apr 18, 2023

My students and I have found the beanie seats and rug to be so exhilarating. The reading area is now inviting and creates a sense of warmth in an often textualized environment. My students have found how gratifying reading can be even at school. During the month of May, my students were assigned a read project where they had to create a memory box of what they had read. The reading area created with the rug and beanie seats made this activity meaningful and rememberable: Not only did this area serve as readability area but also a work area where they produced astonishing mosaics memory boxes.

Once everything arrived, I brought everything out to surprise my students. They were elated. Their mouths opened and eyes popped with shock and joy. They were as they said, "So hyped." After we took our pictures they immediately opened the beanie seats and the rug to try everythingthing out.

Our next step for classroom lessons are to increase the genre of books and create euphoric wonders through the joy of reading.”

With gratitude,

Ms. S.McElroy Quinn