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Become a Story Champ

School:: Blue Lake Elementary School
Subject:: Special Needs Students
Teacher:: Alyssa Chertcow
Students Impacted:: 85
Grade:: Pre K - 5
Date:: September 13, 2023

Investor

Thank you to the following investor for funding this grant.

FUTURES Foundation - $298.00

Impact to My Classroom

# of Students Impacted: 95

I purchased the Story CHAMPS kit with this grant. The story CHAMPS Kit has helped many of my students! I used this kit with students from grades kindergarden through 5th grade. We used this Kit during language therapy sessions to target IEP language goals. The Story Champs kit will provided students with the materials to work on curriculum standards and language therapy goals (per their IEP). Students listened to stories, asked questions, answered questions, retell story elements, defined vocabulary, used appropriate grammar, etc. I have noticed that the students were able to meet their IEP language goals quicker and incorporate these skills within the classroom as well. This kit will stay at Blue Lake Elementary and continue to impact and help students for years to come! Thank you FUTURES foundation and grant investors for making this happen!!

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Original Grant Overview

Goal

Students will improve overall receptive and expressive language skills. The Story Champs kit will help the students meet their language goals (per their IEP) and Florida Curriculum ELA Standards.

What will be done with my students

The SLP will use the Story Champs kit with students during language therapy. The Story Champs kit will provide students with the materials to work on curriculum standards and language therapy goals (per their IEP). Students will listen to stories, ask questions, answer questions, retell story elements, define vocabulary, use appropriate grammar, etc.

Benefits to my students

I will incorporate the Story Champs kit into my language therapy sessions with my students (PK-5th grade - approx. 85 students).

The Story Champ support 3 tiers of intervention – large group, small group, and individual settings. The Story Champs intervention includes 24 stories, corresponding illustrations, and vibrant storytelling icons that represent key story grammar elements. These icons are used throughout Story Champs to help visually reinforce the key story grammar elements. With over 20 feasibility and efficacy studies, Story Champs has produced robust effects for language development in early childhood for a wide range of learners, often in a short amount of time. The Story Champs kit can be used for a variety of functions and can be used from year to year from student to student.

This kit will also support the following Florida Curriculum Standards:
LAFS.K.RL.1.1 With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
LAFS.K.RL.1.2 With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
LAFS.K.RL.1.3 With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
LAFS.K.RL.2.4 With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
LAFS.K.RL.2.5 Recognize common types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems).
LAFS.K.RL.2.6 With prompting and support, identify the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story.
LAFS.K.RL.4.10 Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
LAFS.K.RL.3.7 With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the
story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).
LAFS.K.RL.3.9 With prompting and support, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories.
LAFS.K.RI.3.8 With prompting and support, identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.
LAFS.K.RI.3.9 With prompting and support, identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures).
LAFS.K.SL.1.2 Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.
LAFS.K.SL.2.4 Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.
ELA.6.V.1.1 Integrate academic vocabulary appropriate to grade level in speaking and writing.
ELA.4.V.1.3 Use context clues, figurative language, word relationships, reference materials, and/or background knowledge to determine the meaning of multiple-meaning and unknown words and phrases, appropriate to grade level.