Without an accepted curriculum for spelling, the 4th and 5th grade teachers at Truckee Elementary have found and piloted spelling websites in the past two years. We have agreed upon the site SpellingClassroom.com for our spelling needs. This site allows students to practice spelling words through games and fun activities

"NoRedInk [is an online program that] helps students practice their grammar and writing skills. Students work with engaging and often humorous sentences that incorporate their favorite characters, musicians, athletes, books, movies, sports teams, and celebrities. NoRedInk provides adaptive, differentiated instruction. This means that the site adjusts questions in real time

Our school implements an instructional model called the Daily 5, which encourages students towards reading achievement. During this time, students choose a reading activity to engage with while the teacher works with other students one-on-one or in a small group to provide more personalized instruction. My need is to have

Scholastic News 3 is a subscription to a high-interest current event periodical which is written at an appropriate reading level for 3rd graders. Each issue comes with teaching tools that support our ELA, science, and social studies curriculum.

Weekly newspapers covering Social Studies and Science to enhance our literacy and knowledge of given topics. The topics are all what is being taught in the Kindergarten Classrooms.

We would like to purchase a 600 books, that are in packs of 6. They are leveled A-E. The distributor is Fountas and Pinnell which is our reading/literacy assessment, and the readers correlate with our goals of having students read at a D level by the end of kindergarten. We

In order to promote rich literacy experiences for our students, it is imperative that they have access to quality high caliber texts in the target language. The Books on CD are rich culturally sensitive language books that will be sent home weekly on a rotating basis. Through the books on

This grant will provide Spanish books to help build our classroom library so students have richer literacy experiences to better access the Common Core State Standards. Currently (as I am new to this district), our classroom library lacks a variety of genres, does not contain much authentic Spanish literature, and

Canciones y Cuentos Decodable Books Level A contain stories in Spanish that delight students and invite them to learn the basics of reading through phonics. This set includes 6 copies each of 26 decodable books (156 books total) per set. The 6 year eBook license gives students fully integrated online

This grant is a mixture of items. First, I would love to order more pillows for my room to create a comfortable environment for students to read. We all know the importance of being comfortable while reading and I want my students to look forward to reading in my room