Inspire the Classics

Impact to My Classroom

# of Students Impacted: 40

Before we received the grant from Champions for Learning our students never had access to classical stories like Romeo and Juliet,  Catcher in the Rye, Tom Sawyer and Hamlet.  Most of the stories in our curriculum covered all of the standards however it did not allow students to dig further into understanding classic literature themes and characters.  Our students were aware that the stories they were reading were not the same stories as the General Education students. The inspire classics grants allowed the students to be more fully engaged with the literature that their same age Gen Ed peers are also reading.

With our general curriculum the students on the pretest were scoring around a 20 to 30% correct and on the posttest were scoring between a 60 to 70% correct

Once we introduced Inspire Classics the pretest scores were around 20 to 30% correct however the posttest scores were between 80 to 100% correct.

We also saw an increase in our benchmark scores from the fall to the spring.

Typically we see an increase of about 15 to 20% skill increase from the fall to the spring benchmark, this year with introducing Inspire Classics we did see a 25 to 30% increase in the reading comprehension scores.

The Inspire Classics stories are a lot more engaging and it has given us the ability to delve further into characters, plot, setting, protagonist, antagonist and rise and fall of a story.