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School:: Avalon Elementary
Subject:: Language Arts
Teacher:: Andrew Faustini
Students Impacted:: 21
Grade:: 4
Date:: August 24, 2015

Investor

Thank you to the following investor for funding this grant.

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Impact to My Classroom

# of Students Impacted: 22

Multiple new opportunities were provided for my students with this help from your foundation. I was able to read aloud brand new books that students were interested in and selected from Scholastic. After reading, many children came back from our library with the same book and would read ahead because they were so excited to be reading about something that related to themselves. They would constantly ask me to purchase more books of similar genre. The class I had this year also reached a new goal personally for myself. All of the books that we purchased are Scholastic and have a short quiz attached to each book along with points awarded for passing the quiz. With the increase in amount of these books, the points that my students were earning and quizzes they were passing was exponential. This is the first year that one of my classes has had a student who earned the most points in our grade level, and that my class has won a trophy for earning the most points for the month!

Original Grant Overview

Goal

An increase of interest in reading for the children in my classroom as well as encouragement when they read. Children will also gain confidence in their own reading abilities and help them to be less reluctant to read and more inspired to put a book in their hands and take a travel into their imagination.

What will be done with my students

Each year, I purchase Scholastic books in order to promote fun reading in my classroom. I usually take a list at the beginning of the year from each child asking what three books they wish to have if they had the money, and buy them from Scholastic either online or through their warehouse sales. Each of these books offers them a chance to read it and then take a short quiz on each book. If they pass the quiz, they earn a variety of points dependent upon the difficulty of the book. This in turn causes the children to not only be competitive with one another, but also with other classes throughout the school. It also provides students with a better understanding of some difficult concepts in reading by exposing them to a variety of books.

Benefits to my students

With help from your foundation, the 21 children in my class this year will remember these experiences for the rest of their lives. I was grateful enough to start this program last year with your help and look to continue it this year. I have feedback from last year's students and they can't thank your foundation enough for providing them with new books that they are interested in reading. Each one of them received several of the books I purchased using your generous gift and have shared these books with their siblings as well.

Budget Narrative

Books will be purchased from online and warehouse specials and receipts will be provided before the end of the year

Items

#	Item	Cost
1	Scholastic Reading Books	$300.00
	Total:	$300.00

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