Demographics
I have the honor of serving the community and children at Elizabeth D. Redd Elementary in Richmond, Virginia. Redd is an inner-city, Title I school serving grades K-5. We have approximately 500 students, with the majority coming from low-income households. Our students are predominantly African American and Hispanic. Many students migrated from Central America and speak English as a second language.
Reading has been a recurring struggle for our 3rd graders, according to scores from our state standardized assessment in Virginia. The students particularly struggle with vocabulary, comprehension, and stamina. Studying adjectives and character traits is important because it expands the students’ limited vocabulary and supports comprehension within the context of relevant literature. The students also have difficulty deeply understanding texts as they struggle to visualize, make connections, or compare and contrast as they read. Connecting texts to a film supports comprehension because the students can see what they thought about the text versus what the filmmaker depicted, thus developing a greater attention to detail supporting their comprehension in other reading.
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