My Students

Do you remember what it was like when you were given a book to keep for your very own and began to build your own library at home?

I teach 12 preschoolers with disabilities.

Their ages are 3 to 5 years old, and they are from diverse ethnic backgrounds. My students live in a high poverty area of South Carolina. Our school is a Title One school serving grades preschool to grade 5.

My Project

My students love books! Unfortunately, they lack reading materials in their homes. This presents an immense challenge for their literacy development. I use a preschool literary curriculum in which every month a new story unit is centered on one book. The book is read to the class daily. The curriculum teaches rhyme, rhythm, and repetition as effective tools for the different activities in the story unit. At the end of the month each child is given a new copy of the book with his name and date written inside to keep and take home.

Each month my students look forward to taking their book home to share and read with their family.

Your help will make it possible for my students to have their own precious books and begin building their own home libraries.