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The goal of this grant is to provide our 5th grade teachers access to rich literature for their entire classrooms. If these class sets of 30 chapter books were provided, our teachers could teach literature through novel studies.

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A Novel Idea for 5th Graders

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School:
Tommie Barfield Elementary 
Subject:
Language Arts 
Teacher:
Molly Skudnig 
 
Mabel Pena, Marissa Brinson, Jen Jewett 
Students Impacted:
85 
Grade:
Date:
July 16, 2015

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Scripps Howard Foundation - $1,159.92

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Impact to My Classroom

# of Students Impacted: 550

Our students have enjoyed the class sets of novel studies again and again. Our teachers love this resource and the options that it has provided. Our students have been emerseed in rich discussions about text with their teacher and peers acting as guides on the side. Thank you for providing such powerful resources to our students. 

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Original Grant Overview

Goal

The goal of this grant is to provide our 5th grade teachers access to rich literature for their entire classrooms. If these class sets of 30 chapter books were provided, our teachers could teach literature through novel studies.  

 

What will be done with my students

Currently students are reading chapters or sections of great literature in their Core Reading Text books. While these experiences are great and would continue, I would love for our students to experience entire pieces of literature. With this grant, teachers will have access to 30 copies of the same text, so that every student in the class can hold and read the same text at the same time. When the text is completed in one room, it can be checked out again in another classroom. It would become a school-wide resource used by 4 fifth grade classrooms of approximately 85 students. 

 

Benefits to my students

Reading an entire book as a class will expose students to the joy literature can bring. With the teacher there to guide the students with deeper thinking and collaboration during their reading, these books will bring an opportunity for our students to succeed in becoming critical thinkers while reading. 

 

Budget Narrative

Each of the books selected have lessons provided in CPALMS which have been vetted and aligned to our Florida Standards or come with a teacher guide called a Novel-Tie. The books would be a teaching tool for mastering the standards at the 5th grade level. Books have been selected based on appropriate 5th grade reading levels (Fountas and Pinnel T, U and V). 

 

Items

# Item Cost
1 Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson Newberry Honor Book 31 Books + Teacher Guide $181.32
2 Sounder by William H. Armstrong Newberry Medal 31 Books + Teacher Guide $205.32
3 Number the Stars by Lois Lowry Newberry Medal 31 Books + Teacher Guide $181.32
4 Tangerine by Edward Bloor 31 Books + Teacher Guide $229.32
5 The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare Newberry Honor Book 31 Books + Teacher Guide $181.32
6 Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan 31 Books + Teacher Guide $181.32
  Total: $1,159.92

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