Past projects 5
Cracking the Code in Informational Text
Funded Jan 15, 2015I am very excited for your support of this project. My reading intervention students benefit from guided practice and instruction in reading groups. I am always looking for different strategies to help them understand the text.
With the changes to state standards and the increasing demands of Common Core, my students do not always have the necessary materials and resources to bring to school. These multicolored highlighters are going to help my students practice "coding the text" when reading informational text through the close reading model. Coding the text allows my students to focus on key standards and skills that we are working on in the classroom as well as helping them identify the missing parts of the text.
I will be able to share this reading strategy with multiple classrooms when modeling reading lessons to the class which will have a greater impact on our school.”
With gratitude,
Ms. DeLeon
This classroom project was brought to life by Quill.com FY15 and 5 other donors.Printing Worth A Thousand Words
Funded Apr 24, 2014Thank you for supporting our project, Printing Worth A Thousand Words. My students and I were very excited to have received the materials needed to complete the many projects they work on throughout the school year. My students are now able to print out all their assignments, essays, pictures and other things needed for their projects inside and outside of the classroom.
My students do not always have access to a computer at home let alone a printer so we spend time before school and during our after-school program typing up our assignments, using the Internet to find outside resources and pictures to include in our projects and printing everything out. We are limited on copy paper for the printer so having this extra paper allows us to take our projects to the next level.
This project has boosted my students' interest in their learning because they know they have a place to work on their assignments and projects as well as being able to take them home with them after they've printed their work. We are very much excited to continue to use these resources throughout the school year as this project continues to impact the 220 students I work with every month.”
With gratitude,
Ms. DeLeon
Focused Fluency for Progress
Funded Sep 10, 2013Words cannot express how grateful we are to each of you that supported our project. Our students and teachers were very excited to receive new sheet protectors to use for their daily fluency practice.
With your support, you have made it possible for our students to spend more instructional time focusing on their fluency practice and less time trying to see if there were enough sheet protectors to go around. The new sheet protectors have allowed our reading classrooms to have more passages available for the students to use as well as protect the limited resources used for practice.
Supporting this project meant that you supported over 500 students in their goals of increasing their fluency scores. As a result of their daily fluency practice, our students have made tremendous gains in their fluency scores. We have students that have increased their word count, speed and accuracy and exceeded their personal and school goals. We thank you again for your generous support and positive impact it has had on our students.”
With gratitude,
Ms. DeLeon
The Power of Reading through Literature Circles
Funded Sep 16, 2012Thank you for your generosity in providing new resources and books for our classroom to use for literature circles. My reading intervention students do not always have the opportunity to read in small-groups in their regular classrooms and when they come to intervention they are hesitant to discuss what they've read.
Since receiving these resources, our classes have been able to sit in their small-groups and discuss what they are reading using the guided reading questions provided in the student workbooks. This helps them think of other questions they can ask their group members while they are reading. We are also working on summarizing what we've read or learned for the day and they reflect in the reading journal.
These resources also have specific themes that they also need to relate to their own personal experiences. We are working hard on our critical-thinking skills and learning to justify our answers with evidence from the text and providing examples from the real-world and life. They have also learned that it is okay to disagree with another group member as long as they have their evidence to support their statement. We are very grateful for the new resources that are helping my intervention classes move in the right direction.”
With gratitude,
Ms. DeLeon
Modeled Fluency Builds Comprehension
Funded Oct 19, 2012Thank you for your supporting our classroom with audiobooks to go with our classroom library. Reading is important to our daily lives and the students I work with already face challenges as below-grade level readers. Reading research has shown that with modeled fluency and daily practice, students increase their fluency and also their comprehension.
Older students that struggle with reading are often embarrassed to read in front of their peers. They take no interest in reading and fall further behind in school. As a reading intervention teacher, my passion for literacy and focusing on the positives of daily reading practice is starting to rub off on my students. With these audiobooks, my students no longer have to feel embarrassed to read in front of their peers because they can listen to another person modeling good fluency. We are also building their comprehension at the same time as the audiobook allow us to spend more time reading and discussing as a group what happened in the story.
They no longer complain about independent reading because it is a daily practice that is built into our routine. Your generosity was well-received by my students and they are very thankful for their new resources.”
With gratitude,
Ms. DeLeon
This classroom project was brought to life by NEA Foundation and 4 other donors.