Leona Cox Community School has received a grant from Target for books. The $500 grant is a part of the 2014 Target Books for Schools program. Each year, local Target stores award schools based on need.
In most classrooms, quality non-fiction is a hot commodity. According to Educational Leadership December 2012, non-fiction comprises 9.8% of primary classroom libraries, and the mean number of informational texts found are 1.2 per child in low-income districts and 3.3 in high-income districts. Even worse, students tend to spend an average of 3.6 minutes each day with informational text.
“There is definitely an imbalance of fiction and non-fiction books in schools,” said Leona Cox Community School Assistant Principal Kim Porter.
Leona Cox is using their Target grant to purchase quality non-fiction Accelerated Reader books for the library.
“We would like to purchase books that meet the core curricular standards in social studies and science, so students can explore these topics in more depth and have the opportunity to take AR tests on these books,” said Claire Reeves, Leona Cox school librarian.
“We need to continue to increase the ratio of nonfiction to fiction texts, to prepare our students to be College and Career ready,” Reeves said.
Target and First Book is giving Leona Cox a head start in our quest to be ready for Common Core, Porter said.
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