A critical part of an elementary language arts curriculum is interactive read aloud. During read aloud time, teachers are able to model fluency as well as critical reading skills like inference and using context clues to find the meaning of words. This year's Newbery Book Award winner is "Merci Saurez

Scholastic News 3 is a subscription to a high-interest current event periodical which is written at an appropriate reading level for third graders to support their Reading Informational Text standards. Each issue comes with teaching tools that support our ELA, science, social studies, and technology curriculum. Additionally there are numerous

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 and reading groups on their own, set a reading pace with their peer group, conduct weekly conversations around their novels, demonstrate

For over five years, teachers and administrators at North Tahoe High School have focused on creating a culture of literacy with the goal of ensuring that our students are not only college and career ready, but also have the skills needed to access the different types of complex texts they

This grant would purchase a set of content aligned Reader’s Theater Scripts which includes student copies of scripts and a teacher’s guide for each of the scripts. These scripts are aligned with CCSS English/Spanish Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Studies standards for grades 1-6, which provides scaffolding for all

One of our goals at Sierra Expeditionary Learning School (SELS) is to facilitate a love of reading while supporting students to become proficient readers. Leveled texts are used to help engage all students in daily literacy assessment and instruction and are an essential tool used by our Reading Specialists (RSs)

In past years 3rd grade has made poetry writing one of our writing focuses. We have compiled each student’s poetry at the end of the year and have created a personal poetry book for each child. We would like to continue this tradition and are requesting funding to purchase “hard-covered

The Student Choice Leisure Reading program is a strong component in the overall development of Sierra High School students’ literacy skills. The role of reading everyday is a major factor in students building overall academic success. The opportunity to build literacy skills daily, in an non evaluative manner, increases students

Small group reading is a part of all grade levels at Glenshire Elementary. This allows for teachers and paraprofessionals to work with students in leveled groups, addressing the individual needs of students. In the upper grades we meet in "Literature Circles" or "Book Clubs" to facilitate discussion with our novels

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