With these funds I will purchase high interest, accessible books for our middle school students who are developing readers.  All middle school students take Reading and Mindset.  This course emphasizes independent reading—building students’ identities as readers, increasing the amount of time students spend reading, and accelerating students’ reading growth.  

Our goal is to accelerate each student’s individual reading growth rate.  To achieve this goal, students must build habits of reading.  Therefore they must have access to great books that meet their interests and their reading levels.  Reading research shows that the amount of time students are engaged in reading a text at their level directly relates to their reading achievement.

Our developing readers are four to six grade levels behind, and we want to change that by engaging them in great books that they can read independently every day this school year. In order to do that we need a large supply of high interest books that are appropriate for where they are starting as readers. Publishers such as High Noon Books (http://www.highnoonbooks.com/index-hnb.tpl) do great work to make a wide variety of appropriately leveled books available. Now, we need your support to purchase these books!

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