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  • Washington Elementary School
  • San Antonio, TX
  • Nearly all 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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The books that I have selected cover a variety of genres and will help us have different options throughout the school year to vary our read-a-loud. Requested titles include Wonder, A Wrinkle in Time, The Crossover, and The One and Only Ivan. Providing every student with a book to read during this time will increase the student engagement and as a teacher I will be able to ask more text dependent questions as well as comprehension questions to demonstrate their understanding. For our first read-a-loud in the school year, my students sat and listened to me read from one book, which is the one I held and read. Some of my students were engaged because they had good listening skills, however, my students that needed the book in front of them to understand, struggled. Our next read-a-loud consisted of my students pairing together and sharing a book. This worked really good for the majority but for a few of my students, this shared reading was an invasion of personal space since they had to share one small book between two 5th graders. I want to provide my students with the opportunity to be able to hold a book in their hand and follow along and fall in love with reading. Helping them grow as readers is such an important goal for me because many of my students are not reading at grade level. Letting them hold the book and read along will help them build their own fluency as well as comprehend the book. By helping me fund this project, I will be able to help them go in the right directions to becoming life long learners and most importantly great readers.

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The books that I have selected cover a variety of genres and will help us have different options throughout the school year to vary our read-a-loud. Requested titles include Wonder, A Wrinkle in Time, The Crossover, and The One and Only Ivan. Providing every student with a book to read during this time will increase the student engagement and as a teacher I will be able to ask more text dependent questions as well as comprehension questions to demonstrate their understanding. For our first read-a-loud in the school year, my students sat and listened to me read from one book, which is the one I held and read. Some of my students were engaged because they had good listening skills, however, my students that needed the book in front of them to understand, struggled. Our next read-a-loud consisted of my students pairing together and sharing a book. This worked really good for the majority but for a few of my students, this shared reading was an invasion of personal space since they had to share one small book between two 5th graders. I want to provide my students with the opportunity to be able to hold a book in their hand and follow along and fall in love with reading. Helping them grow as readers is such an important goal for me because many of my students are not reading at grade level. Letting them hold the book and read along will help them build their own fluency as well as comprehend the book. By helping me fund this project, I will be able to help them go in the right directions to becoming life long learners and most importantly great readers.

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