Wristbands for Readers
- School:
- Village Oaks Elementary
- Subject:
- Language Arts
- Teacher:
- Megan Barr
- Students Impacted:
- 601
- Grade:
- K-5
- Date:
- September 14, 2020
Investor
Thank you to the following investor for funding this grant.
Florida License for Learning License Plate Fund - $563.50
Original Grant Overview
Goal
Our goal is to support our students in developing a lifelong love for reading and developing reading habits that promote reading for enjoyment, choice, and interest. Research shows that students engaged in reading texts that they enjoy will apply more effort, display more stamina and engage in more decoding strategies when given choice in reading material and motivation to read. The goal is to enhance our student’s independent reading of books by providing various colored wristbands to incentivize individual independent reading.
What will be done with my students
Throughout the year students take part in independent reading using our school library on campus. When completing a book, students are able to earn points through the Reading Counts Platform online. Wristbands will be provided to students based on the points they earn. When they reach different point thresholds by passing Reading Counts tests, they will earn different styles of wristbands.
Our younger students will earn wristbands based on the number of sight words they learn as emerging readers. As they become stronger readers, they will start taking Reading Counts tests to earn different wristbands.
Benefits to my students
Reading for enjoyment and engaging in reading provides students to develop and broaden their vocabulary, and understand the world around them. Empowering students and encouraging independent reading fosters students to continue to apply reading strategies to build their comprehension and students will work harder and put forth more effort when given choice, picking books of interest, and reading materials self-chosen. Celebrating students’ independent reading in elementary school helps to increase student language acquisition, vocabulary development, and set students up for life-long academic success. Since group celebrations are not able to be provided this year due to the pandemic, this is a wonderful alternative to help build a culture that celebrates and values a love of reading.
Budget Narrative
The budget includes multiple styles of wristbands that students will be able to earn based on the number of Reading Counts points they earn through independent reading. This budget also includes wristbands for those emerging readers that are learning their sight words.
Items
| # | Item | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | White/purple swirl (300) | $44.00 |
| 2 | Purple Glow in the Dark (600) | $83.00 |
| 3 | Metallic Silver (300) | $44.00 |
| 4 | Blue/White/Purple Segmented (400) | $57.00 |
| 5 | Black/Purple Swirl (200) | $28.00 |
| 6 | Green Glow in the Dark (150) | $19.50 |
| 7 | Green Camo Swirl (150) | $19.50 |
| 8 | White/Orange Swirl (150) | $19.50 |
| 9 | Red/Blue/Purple Segmented (150) | $19.50 |
| 10 | White Glow in the Dark (150) | $19.50 |
| 11 | Hot Pink (100) | $15.00 |
| 12 | Fluorescent Blue (100) | $15.00 |
| 13 | Red/Yellow Swirl (100) | $15.00 |
| 14 | Yellow Gold (100) | $15.00 |
| 15 | Teal/White Swirl (100) | $15.00 |
| 16 | Rainbow (100) | $15.00 |
| 17 | Light Pink/Purple Swirl (100) | $15.00 |
| 18 | Blue Glow in the Dark (100) | $15.00 |
| 19 | White/Lavender Segmented (100) | $15.00 |
| 20 | Seafoam Green (100) | $15.00 |
| 21 | Blue/Orange Segmented (100) | $15.00 |
| 22 | Lavender (100) | $15.00 |
| 23 | White/Lime Green Segmented (100) | $15.00 |
| 24 | Violet (100) | $15.00 |
| Total: | $563.50 |
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