To raise funds to help purchase fiction and non-fiction classroom books for our new teacher’s classroom library. The classroom library books will help students to read non-fiction text that will prepare them for the 3rd grade FSA The desire is to add fiction and non-fiction books and help create a love and an excitement for reading. I would like to build our classroom library where students will want to grab a variety of books with a multiple of topics to peak these 2nd graders interest of learning through reading

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New Teacher! New Classroom Library!

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School:
Frostproof Elem. 
Subject:
Language Arts 
Teacher:
Deena Dickey 
Students Impacted:
  
Grade:
2 
Date:
September 29, 2016

Investors

Thank you to the following investors for funding this grant.

 

Marie Evans - $25.00

Wells Fargo - $50.00

Polk Education Foundation - $158.65

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Impact to My Classroom

# of Students Impacted: 20

As we come close to ending our 2nd Semester of 2016-17, I am excited to share the thrill of our students when we received our many new classroom books for our classroom library before leaving for our winter break.  As you can see from our enclosed pictures, there were too many books [over 100 books of fiction and non-fiction texts] for the students to hold and show off all the books that were purchased through your grant program.  However, you cannot help but see the joy and excitement in each of the students’ faces in receiving this great gift!!

My goal upon applying for this program was to place fiction and non-fiction classroom books in our classroom for the students to assist in their reading comprehension.  It is a great combination of having appropriate grade level reading material combined with our county’s Accelerated Reading Program [AR] of comprehension quizzes to assess the students’ knowledge of what they have read.  This combination peaks the students’ love of reading with the preparation of their future 3rd grade FSA assessment of reading and language requirements.

I want to also thank the Scholastic Book company for assisting me with the best choices of fiction and non-fiction texts and their best book packages to stretch every dollar of my generous donation.  All of which will assist these 2nd grade students as they continue to grow into avid readers. 


The businesses that support this partnership of Polk Education Foundation have done a great service to not only my students and my future students, but also to all the students of Polk County for giving their financial support to this program. 

Thank you to the many businesses that support Find It & Fund It POLK! 


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The Books Arrived from Scholastic!!

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So many books-hard to get in one pic!

 

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My 2nd grade students are so excited!!

 

Original Grant Overview

Goal

To raise funds to help purchase fiction and non-fiction classroom books for our new teacher’s classroom library. The classroom library books will help students to read non-fiction text that will prepare them for the 3rd grade FSA The desire is to add fiction and non-fiction books and help create a love and an excitement for reading. I would like to build our classroom library where students will want to grab a variety of books with a multiple of topics to peak these 2nd graders interest of learning through reading 

 

What will be done with my students

Students will be given classroom books from Scholastic with fiction and non-fiction topics that are covered for the year. They will read and answer question based on the text. ie text, pictures, captions, charts. As well as use their knowledge from the text to take Accelerated Reader {AR} quizzes. My students will be able to take Accelerated Reader quizzes to further test their comprehension of the books they are reading.


 

 

Benefits to my students

Benefits for Students
Students will be engaged in reading.
Students Reading Scores will increase.

Students will want to finish classwork, correctly in order to get a chance to relax and read the variety of books during their daily center time and “Power Read” time.

Reading non-fiction text will help these students to be better prepared for their future FSA testing in 3rd grade.

 

 

Budget Narrative

The cost for adding fiction and non-fiction books to our new teachers’ class library for our 2nd grade students is $250. 

 

Items

# Item Cost
1 Scholastic Accelerated Reader Grade 2 $199.99
2 Shipping $33.66
  Total: $233.65

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