Enhancing Our 3rd Grade Learning; One Leveled Text at a Time

Funded Oct 19, 2015

Back when you helped fund the leveled texts in our classroom, you may not have realized the impact that it had on our students here at Gold Rush Elementary. Not only did they impact the current class that I had when the resources were sent, but 3rd graders in my partnering classes and my future 3rd graders.

These texts made an impact in many ways. Most of the texts apply to our Science and Social Studies topics. Often times, those topics are very complex for a 3rd grader and finding appropriate material for them to read is tricky. With your help, I was able to have immediate access to articles that fit each child's reading level. What was cool about these books is that they also came with a CD that had digital versions of the articles. I didn't always have to print everything, and I could share with students digitally. From reading these articles, we could have amazing conversations and deep thinking questions to explore and enhance our learning.

Another set of texts that you helped fund were math leveled mini projects. Not only does reading need to be differentiated, but math as well. With your help, I was able to target where students were at with our math curriculum and give them a small task they could work on that was the perfect fit.

While it's been awhile since you donated, your help is still useful today! Having adequate, high-quality and relevant resources can often cost quite a bit and you made having that access to awesome resources possible.

Thank you so much again for your donation!”

With gratitude,

Ms. Meredith