Renew subscriptions for weekly newspapers covering Social Studies, Science and current events to enhance our ELD program. The topics all correlate with what is being taught in kindergarten. The magazines have been used in the past and were utilized consistently in our weekly routine.

We would like to purchase books to create lending libraries in classrooms. The books will be a mix of English, bilingual English/Spanish, and Spanish. This will allow the K/1 and ELD teacher to send books home with students in their book bags that their parents can read to them in

As a Special Education teacher I strive to follow the Science of Reading practices and to give my students access to multi-sensory, evidenced-based, systematic and explicit literacy instruction. This includes daily access to appealing decodable texts allowing my students opportunities to practice learned skills with high interest text and lower

Weekly newspapers covering social studies, science and current events to enhance our ELD program. All of the monthly and weekly topics correlate to what we are teaching in our transitional kindergarten classrooms.

I have been a first-grade teacher at KBE for the past three years, and our team follows a carefully structured series of thematic units designed around grade-level standards, including social-emotional learning, social studies, and science. These units are intentionally aligned across all first-grade classrooms and taught simultaneously, covering a diverse

Mystery Writing is a new program under the umbrella of Mystery Science. The request is for a school license for Mystery Writing. The program includes engaging, standards aligned lessons that support students with basic writing skills and more complex opinion, narrative, and informational writing.

This grant would provide an updated classroom library for all 4th graders at KBE. The goal is to update our current classroom library and increase access to a wide-range of quality books of different reading levels, genres, and topics, all within a cozy reading nook that students are drawn to

Graphic Novels are a wonderful way to introduce chapter books and more complex literacy skills to young readers. Graphic Novels use engaging illustrations to motivate the reader while providing support for vocabulary and comprehension. These titles are also super popular and the first ones to be borrowed off the shelf

We would like the Mystery Writing program purchased. Mystery Writing will be a complete, standards-aligned program that is differentiated for all students.

As the reading intervention teacher at our school, it is my responsibility to inspire reluctant readers to read. This can be a challenge. I have found success by creating a comfortable environment for reading in my classroom and matching students with appropriate level books that are also engaging to middle