I am requesting $500 to build Mrs. Cooper's Classroom Library. This year I worked my first year as a certificated teacher at Glenshire Elementary School. Throughout the school year I took Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling better known as LETRS. This program taught me many things, but

Read Naturally is a researched-based, web-based, individualized reading program that targets struggling readers. The program is designed to increase students' phonics skills, vocabulary development, reading fluency, and reading comprehension skills. The stories are non-fictional, increasing student engagement and motivation. Teachers are able to monitor students' success in each story through

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, conduct weekly

Sierra High School recognizes that this grant request is a repeat of one requested last year. However, the need for students to choose their own books and the need to replenish our library does not diminish over time. We are a small school with no traditional library access. Students often

Magazine and focused literacy subscriptions help support and enhance early literacy skills in an elementary classroom. Adding a variety of high-interest reading material to a classroom library allows students the flexibility to choose additional reading material that fosters a love of reading. By subscribing to magazines, students have the option

The students at Glenshire Elementary are reading at higher and higher levels. We would like to expand our selection of high level - age appropriate books. Our vision at Glenshire is "Students love to read and read to achieve", and providing challenging books for all readers is of the utmost

This request is for funds to purchase new decodable book sets for small-group reading instruction at Sierra Expeditionary Learning School. A structured phonics approach to teaching reading has been the main focus of early literacy research in the past decade. Recently, the “science of reading” has been at the forefront

This grant consists of a few novel sets for our new 4/5 classroom teacher and one for 2/3. Many of the books we are looking at address topics in diversity. There are a few books that are of high interest to students. The individual books were common requested texts from

The purpose of this grant is to request funds for purchasing classroom reading libraries for the three 5th grade classes at Glenshire Elementary School. The existing classroom libraries currently have some new and high interest books mixed in with outdated books that students always pass up. The goal of this

Scholastic News is a subscription to a high-interest current event periodical which is written at an appropriate reading level for third graders to support the Reading Informational Text standards. Each issue comes with teaching tools that support our ELA, science, social studies, and technology curriculum. Additionally there are numerous technological