Read to Succeed! Improving Reading Performance for At Risk Students

School:: Vineyards Elementary
Subject:: Language Arts
Teacher:: Suela Spahiu
Students Impacted:: 20
Grade:: 2
Date:: September 5, 2020

Investor

Thank you to the following investor for funding this grant.

Naples Luxury Builders - $126.80

Impact to My Classroom

# of Students Impacted: 17

Both of the scolastic magazine are transformative programs that allowed students to investigate nonfiction articles, at their own pace and lexile. I used the magazines in my Social Studies classes and Science not just for current events, but as activities that support my curriculum and lesson plan. I could assign article quizzes that I use as a means of formative assessments, as well as the writing prompts to gauge student comprehension. Recently, I have been comparing student results with other teachers and have helped develop more individualized lessons to promote skill development for all students. Students, on heir own volition, began using the magazine articles as a database to assist in researching.

I believe both magazines are great teaching tools to use and I have found many benefits to using it in my classroom. One thing I like is that the questions are already created, and they are not simple multiple choice questions, but ones that actually make students have to go back to the text, analyze what they have already read, and then come up with the best possible answer. I also appreciate that teachers can see what grade-level would be best for specific articles. These grade level assignments are based on the Lexile range, and help me when choosing articles for my heterogeneous classes. This raises student motivation, and gets them excited to read a current event in something they are actually interested in.

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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 Super Science Spin Magazine and Scholastic News from Scholastic Classroom Magazines combine authentic texts with digital resources to ignite student engagement and raise achievement in every content area.. 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 Super Science Magazine and Read to find out/Scholastic News 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. Students 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

Scholastic News Ed. 2 (Digital Only)
Grade 2 $5.35 20 $107.00
Science Spin Gr. 2 (Digital Only)
Grade 2 $0.99 20 $19.80

Items

#	Item	Cost
1	Scholastic News Ed. 2 20	$107.00
2	Science Spin Gr. 2	$19.80
	Total:	$126.80

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