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We are 5th-grade teachers at Bethany Elementary! We recently read the book Writing Radar and were blown away. This book is exactly what we have been looking for to jump start our students' writing. While we've taught similar strategies before, Jack Gantos's examples, humor, and advice take what we have done to the next level. With witty, real anecdotes and awesome technical suggestions, this book will give our students a toolkit to fuel a lifetime of creative writing.
One of the cool techniques encouraged by this book is for students to keep several journals so that they are always ready to jot down stories and story ideas. We will know we are successful with this project if our students start to carry around writing journals to capture stories that unfold around them. Plus our students will learn to move through life with an active writing radar! We also hope to see an increase in the quality of our students writing. We have found that students struggle to connect their writing to their everyday life. This book helps them to learn to make those connections while still engaging them in an interesting story. We plan to use it as a read aloud so every student is guaranteed to read the book and have it in their hands to reference when they are writing.
We will use the money to purchase a copy of Writing Radar for each of our students. Amazon is currently selling the book for $12 each thus it will take us $1200 to buy each student a copy as we have 100 5th grade students. Each student will be gifted a copy of the book to help inspire them as writers in the years to come.
Please donate to us to help us inspire our students to become better writers.
This project is supported by the Beaverton Education Foundation.
Founded in 1988, the Beaverton Education Foundation raises money to provide hands-on innovative academic enrichment and advancement programs & projects that go beyond normal school funding at all Beaverton public schools and is a 501(c)(3) community-based nonprofit organization. BEF mobilizes community resources to fund innovative classroom, summer and after-school programs.
In the event that this project does not reach its goal, BEF may apply the funds received to another project in need.
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