More Decodable Text!

Moderation state
funded
Grant Applicant
Cecily Senft
School Site
Tahoe Lake Elementary
Grant Category
Literacy
Grant Date
2025-03-31T12:00:00
Description

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 readability. This grant would allow me to supplement our current reading and spelling curriculum and continue to build up my decodable text library with appealing nonfiction text and more series at the blend, digraph, and suffixe level.

Benefits of Program

Decodable readers focus on and reinforce specific phonics skills and letter-sound correspondences, allowing students to practice these skills in a controlled and predictable way, enhancing fluency, offering opportunities for a deeper level of comprehension, boosting reading confidence and ultimately supporting early reading success. This grant will provide reading support for all students that require intensive reading support through Special Education services as well as students receiving reading intervention in the following grades:

  • Transitional Kindergarten
  • Kindergarten
  • 1st
  • 2nd
  • 3rd
  • 4th
  • 5th
Success of Program

The success of these readers are seen in the students excitement and eagerness to get to the next book in the series or when they get excited about reading a "chapter book." The continued  progress monitoring and improvement in students decoding and reading fluency skills is a testament to these decodable readers. The addition of new series and nonfiction text will only continue to improve student learning.

Implementation

Decodable readers are an easy and engaging tool for teachers, paraprofessionals and anyone working with students who struggle with reading. Decodable readers are designed to be used one-on-one or in a small group setting. The program can be implemented within a Special Education environment  and/or small reading intervention groups. The Sonday System, which these decodable readers would be taught in conjunction with, requires 35-minute sessions, 4-5 times a week for intensive intervention, and taught in a small group setting (no more than 4-5 students).

Can you share this grant with your grade level or subject team?

Yes! These readers will provide all Special Education teachers K-5 with another tool to use for students who struggle with reading and are not responding to other reading interventions. As struggling readers begin to improve their skills they are more likely to access the core curriculum, which also ties into our participation in our Special Education PLC’s and our site grade level PLC's. 

Sustainability
Yes, 5 copies of each book requested would be sustainable for the entire life of the books. No additional funding would be needed for years to come.
Amount Funded
$2595.00
Individual Budget Items(s)
$260 - Dandelion World Stages 8-15 (16 Book Set): Blends & Digraphs X5
$260 - Dandelion World Extras Stages 8-15 (16 Book Set): Blends & Digraphs X5
$200 - Dandelion World Stages 16-20 (10 Book Set): easy two-syllable words & Suffixes X5
$150 - Dandelion World VCe Spelling (6 Book Set): VCe X5
$150 - Moon Dogs VCe Spellings (6 Book Set): VCe X5
$395 - Mel On Mars Series (12 Book Set): Blends, Digraphs, Suffixes X5
$395 - Get Out of the Game (12 Book Set): Blends, Digraphs, Suffixes X5
$395 - Pet Sitters (12 Book Set): Blends, Digraphs, alternative spellings for vowel sounds X5
$300 - Boxes for Decodable Book Organization
Shipping
$90.00
Taxes
$0.00
Other funding sources

None at this time. The amount required for the decodable readers outweighs any other financial sources available. 

Supporting Links
Phonic Books Catalog
Notes

I am excited to see the student's excitement when we receive new accessible text.