This grant is for four classroom sets of novels to read and enjoy as a class to support our literacy and writing standards. This will purchase 30 copies of the books Striker, Bridge to Terabithia, Love that Dog, and Hate that Cat.

“Students will read if we give them the books, the time, and the enthusiastic encouragement to do so. If we make them wait for the one unit a year in which they are allowed to choose their own books and become readers, they may never read at all.” ― Donalyn

A is for árbol and avión…B is for barco and bicicleta! These Spanish alphabet teaching tubs have 154 appealing miniature artifacts. The tubs have been grouped into 30 tubs—one for each letter sound in the Spanish alphabet, including “ch,” “ll,” “ñ” and “rr.” Children can use these tubs along with

Over the 2017-18 school year, the TTUSD EL coordinators have participated as Pioneers of Academic Discourse. We have committed to videoing students on a monthly basis as they are in the middle of conversation to document their growth as confident speakers. Our obstacle with nearly all the videos has been

Describe the program or project: As a first-year special education teacher, I have quickly realized that my students are constantly challenged to find a book they can read independently. As a result, most of my students have developed a dislike for reading, and they rarely finish the books that they

Sierra Expeditionary 4th and 5th grade classrooms are the perfect setting for the introduction and exploration of the exquisite stories that reside within classic literature novels. The Newbery Award winning texts are meant to inspire and create a world of wonder for students so that they may see, touch, hear

Newsela is a free online news site and app that provides students with high interest, differentiated, leveled versions of actual news articles and follow-up questions in a quiz form. Newsela PRO allows teachers to track individual student progress, as well as additional support in the form of annotations and written

Raz Kids: A leveled reading program with comprehension questions and assessments. There are nonfiction and fiction benchmark assessment passages for each reading level. The online running record feature includes a recorded retelling capability and interactive quizzes. This is a self-paced, motivational reading program with hundreds of leveled books. Students can

Building on Sierra High School’s commitment to literacy, the Literature Circles are a culminating yearly event where students demonstrate their autonomous learning and developing literacy skills. As a final project in the English classes, students choose novels of their own, set a reading pace with their peer group, conducted weekly

For children in primary grades, whatever literature a teacher presents is often the students' main exposure to both books and the greater world around them. For this reason, educators should consider the implications of the fact that while more than half of the children enrolled in U.S. public schools are