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The goal of the Read to Succeed project is to enable at risk students and students with learning and
reading disabilities to improve their reading skills to the point where they can succeed in school and
develop the reading skills that will prepare them for high school and post secondary education.

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Read to Succeed! Improving Reading Performance for At Risk Students

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School:
Vineyards Elementary 
Subject:
Language Arts 
Teacher:
Suela Spahiu 
Students Impacted:
20 
Grade:
2 
Date:
September 8, 2019

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Champions For Learning - $186.78

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Impact to My Classroom

# of Students Impacted: 18

The storyworks magazine contains authentic texts that helped my students in key reading, writing, speaking and listening, and language domains. It provided essential practice in skills such as close reading and critical thinking, main idea, cause/effect, text evidence, compare/contrast, making inferences, and paragraph writing.  Nonfiction features focused on curriculum-related science and social studies topics, feature academic and domain-specific vocabulary, and nurture higher-level thinking and analytic reading, writing, and grammar skills.


More than 85% of the students performed one or more years below great level in the beginning of the school year. 

 

December: Diagnostic 2 reading performance: 5% of the students preformed one year below.  65% of the students improved tremendously , performed on grade level. 15% of the student performed beginning of the second grade level

 

 

The resources that went  along with each story were great.  My students loved to get the magazines and it was perfect that they can keep this resource when we were finished with it in class.

 

The magazine was very helpful during the elearning time when the schools were clossed during the COVID pandamic.  Students had access on line, they were able to read and submit the assignmets on line. 

 

Students favorite  Storyworks Jr. article of all time is... the play Feathers in the Wind, about the damage that gossip can do. Students performed the plays, but the message in this particular piece was impactful.  The lesson of thinking before we speak and the effect of our words is an important message for students.  This article illustrated that point very well. It's our job to help create responsible and reflective citizens in society and using literature is the perfect way to do it!    

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Student reading online version

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Student analizing text

 

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Student taking test

 

Original Grant Overview

Goal

The goal of the Read to Succeed project is to enable at risk students and students with learning and
reading disabilities to improve their reading skills to the point where they can succeed in school and
develop the reading skills that will prepare them for high school and post secondary education.  

 

What will be done with my students

Students will use Storyworks Jr. Magazines for growing readers by Scholastic which will provide them information and expand the student’s world. The six 32-page print magazines and extensive digital resources for grades 2–3 has so much to offer. Students will be exposed to a wide variety of reading opportunities on many levels and sources of experience.These magazines elicit both aesthetic and emotional responses. They serve as valuable classroom resources by:
• Exposing students to realistic and practical informational texts;
• Building background knowledge to support comprehension;
• Serving as entry points to literacy;
• Encouraging peer and home-school interactions;
• Highlighting the benefits of digital literacy;
• Building graphical literacy by exposing students to graphs, charts, maps, timelines,
and other visual representations of data; and
• Fostering literacy and learning across disciplines. 

 

Benefits to my students

The scope of the Storyworks Jr, by the Scholastic Magazine dedicated to elevating ELA instruction, is filled with powerful multi-genre stories that foster discussions about world events, timely debates, and compelling
nonfiction articles to support instruction. These magazines provides print and digital tools that help build the language arts skills students need in order to become analytical readers and writers. These magazines will be valuable tools for engaging students in literacy and enhancing opportunities for them to read with deep comprehension across disciplines and topics. Both print and digital magazine resources are appealing to students encompassing a wide range of reading levels and interests because they are informative, entertaining, supportive, and instructive. All key ELA skills are covered and build analytic reading and writing skills. These magazines contains differentiation tools. Stusents will get stories at multiple Lexile® levels, plus videos, audio, vocabulary slideshows, and more.All content fully aligns to the LAFS rigorous state standards. 

 

Budget Narrative

Storyworks Jr. Full Year
Price: $8.49 Qty: 20
Shipping & Handling$16.98
Total Price$186.78 

 

Items

# Item Cost
1 Storyworks Jr $186.78
  Total: $186.78

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