Grade 5: Spring Reading Challenge Kicks Off
Ahead of the Graland Book Fair, English teacher Kimm Lucas has challenged her students to complete a spring reading challenge. "The overall goal is to help students expand their selections and avoid a reading rut as they enter the last months of the school year," Kimm explains. The reading challenge also complements Kimm's work on Graland's Equity and Diversity Cohort, a group of faculty that explores ways to bring more diversity topics into our curricula.
Ahead of the Graland Book Fair, English teacher Kimm Lucas has challenged her students to complete a spring reading challenge. "The overall goal is to help students expand their selections and avoid a reading rut as they enter the last months of the school year," Kimm explains. The reading challenge also complements Kimm's work on Graland's Equity and Diversity Cohort, a group of faculty that explores ways to bring more diversity topics into our curricula.
Students are being challenged to read three novels this spring: one featuring with a character who is different than them, one about a topic they don't know much about and one in a format they don't normally select.
"When kicking off this reading challenge, I shared with the students some of the books I am reading or plan to read. I want students to know that I am not only challenging them to diversify what they read, but that I’m doing the same with my own reading,” Kimm says.
The spring reading challenge, “Reading Without Walls,” was inspired by the National Ambassador for Young Children’s Literature, an organization that raises national awareness of the importance of young people’s literature as it relates to lifelong literacy, education and the development and betterment of the lives of young people.
"When kicking off this reading challenge, I shared with the students some of the books I am reading or plan to read. I want students to know that I am not only challenging them to diversify what they read, but that I’m doing the same with my own reading,” Kimm says.
The spring reading challenge, “Reading Without Walls,” was inspired by the National Ambassador for Young Children’s Literature, an organization that raises national awareness of the importance of young people’s literature as it relates to lifelong literacy, education and the development and betterment of the lives of young people.
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Cheryl Dallos3/10/2017 @ 3:41 PMLooking forward to it!
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