For the Love of Reading

School:: Shadowlawn Elementary
Subject:: Language Arts
Teacher:: Amy Ogletree
Students Impacted:: 500
Grade:: Pre K - 5
Date:: August 4, 2020

Investor

Thank you to the following investor for funding this grant.

Carol & Charles Pedretti - $476.40

Impact to My Classroom

# of Students Impacted: 417

As everyone knows the 2020 and 2021 school years have been very challenging for all. When we left at Spring Break and did not return until late August it was quite a surprise. Everyone was struggling to get on track and used to this new virtual learning that we had to now do.

The Shadowlawn Elementary Library has always encouraged our studenst to read, read, read! We told them to take books home on Spring Break, but unfortunatey had 195 books that were not returned to us during the pandemic. I did not have the budget to replace all 195 books that totaled over $2200.00. Due to the generosity of Charles and Carol Pedretti I was able to replace the more populare fiction books that the kids check out on a regular basis. Some of the popular ones included, Fly Guy, Fancy Nancy, Big Nate, Pete the Cat, and My Weird School.

We are so Thankful that we have wonderful community members that support our students and the love to read. The kids are loving these books and they are still our most popular.

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Original Grant Overview

Goal

My goal is to replace the most popular books in the library that were not returned to school because of the pandemic.

What will be done with my students

Shadowlawn students are an extremely diverse group. We are a Title one school in a tight community. Many of my students go home to houses where the parents are working and where they have to be the adults and take care of their younger brothers and sisters. Many are below grade level and struggle to read. Many of their parents also struggle to read. There are many barriers that these children have to face on a daily basis. But the one thing we do know that these children want to be in school and they love coming to the library to check out the newest books that are out there. They are excited to read.
I often get many of my books funded because we hold 2 book fairs a year. With the pandemic I do not know if that will happen. Unfortunately my budget is very limited and will not replace the 195 library books (worth $2269.76) that were not returned to the school. I am trying to replace the most popular fiction books that are missing. The books that I know the children love to read.

Benefits to my students

My students will want to read if we have the most current and popular books available for them to check out. When students are able to check out books that they want to read then they will improve their fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.

Budget Narrative

All books were priced and will be ordered from Amazon and from The First Book Marketplace.

Items

#	Item	Cost
1	Books from amazon	$425.77
2	Books from the First Book Marketplace	$50.63
	Total:	$476.40

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