This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
My Students
My school is in a low income area where 99% of the school receives free or reduced-price lunch. There are approximately 800 students from Pre-K to 4th grade with 75% of them as English as their second language. The students come from backgrounds where money is not readily available and they depend on the school for survival. Most of the kids only get a meal when they come to school.
Graphic Novels are the new craze and my students enjoy checking them out in the library because purchasing them is not always an option.
With the Texas STAAR exam, the students need daily practice in reading in order to be successful on the test. We encourage reading heavily at our school through reading contest, morning reading time, and library book check out. Graphic novels can be the key in promoting good reading habits that can stick with them for a lifetime. Students whose reading level is below grade level or may not be able to read on a Level 1, will check out a graphic novel to interpret what is going on through the pictures. I just enjoy their passion for reading!
My Project
Our graphic novels FLY off the shelf and we can NEVER keep a good supply of them for our students. We would like to increase our collection of GN so that our students, especially our boys, will continue to enjoy reading.
The students literally run in the library to check out the latest graphic novel.
If you ask any students what their favorite book is, they will say either DogMan, Diary of a Wimpy Kid or a comic book. It's amazing how authors have managed to tap into the child of 2018 to find what they love. The colorful pictures and action of the story keeps the child engaged. It is also helping to build their vocabulary and fluency in reading. Sequencing plays a major role in reading graphic novels because you have to keep your eyes flowing with the flow of the story.
Overall, I hope to receive more titles so that my students who are not able to go and buy their own books can treasure the ones available to them in the library. This will help us not only academically but socially as well.
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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