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Project Goal

The goal of this project is to purchase sets of engaging and culturally relevant texts that will be sure to catch and hold students’ interests while providing the teacher with an opportunity to work with young readers on the strategies and skills necessary to navigate complex texts. These books will be placed in our newly created “book room” so that Kindergarten through 5th grade teachers can have access to the wide range of texts that will meet the varying needs of their learners.  

 

How Project Benefits Students

By providing teachers and students with sets of engaging and culturally relevant texts, teachers are able to work with small groups of students where every child can hold a copy of the shared text in their hands. While teachers at our site have some access to text sets of leveled readers, these text sets are over 20 years old, and do not reflect the interests of our students. By supporting this project, you are providing economically disadvantaged students with the opportunity to hold and learn from high quality and engaging texts that connect with their lives and their interests. Matching books to readers is the first step in building life-long learners!  

 

Expected Outcome(s)

Student engagement will increase when students are able to practice their reading strategies and skills within a text that piques their interest. With a shift to more relevant books, the process of reading becomes the crucial way that students are able to access and enjoy these high quality texts, causing an increase in student commitment to apply the process of reading more effortlessly. This will not only impact student achievement in class and on standardized tests, but it will truly prepare them to be life-long learners!  

 

Detailed Cost Summary

Book set pricing is based on the current cost from Scholastic.com. Each item listed below includes 6 copies for use with small groups of students for a total of $1705.13. The list below organizes the same texts by book level beginning with Kindergarten (level A) and increasing to 5th grade and beyond (level 60+).

Book Title: Book Level: Cost

Make it Work: A: 25.95
A Look at Art: B: 30.95
I Can Run: 1/A: 21.95
A Frog Can Hop: 1/A: 21.95
Meet Some Mammals: 2/B: 21.95
One Bug: 2/B: 21.95
Desert Animals: 3/C: 21.95
Bugs: 4: 21.95
Duck, Duck, Dinosaur Bubble Blast: 6/D: 17.95
From Egg to Robin: 6/D: 19.95
Animal Babies: 8/E: 21.95
Trot, Pony: 8/E: 21.95
Hello, Penguin: 10/F: 21.95
Sleep, Bear: 10/F: 21.95
Pete the Cat and the Lost Tooth: 12/G: 17.95
Pete the Cat A Pet for Pete: 12/G: 17.95
Puffins: 12/G: 21.95
Should I Share My Ice Cream?: 14/H: 30.95
The Field: 14/H: 30.95
Drawn Together: 14/H: 30.95
I want to be a Police Officer: 16/I: 21.95
Betsy Ross: 16/I: 30.95
You Call That a Pet: 16-18/J: 26.5
Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain: 16-18/J: 34.95
Judy Moody: 20-24: 26.5
Worrysaurus: 20-24/L: 26.95
King and Kayla and the Case of Found Fred: 20-24/L: 26.5
Mia Mayhem vs. the Super Bully: 28-30/N: 26.5
Mia Mayhem is a Superhero: 28-30/N: 26.5
I am Rosa Parks: 28-30/N: 26.5
Who Would Win Series: 34-38: 186
I am Jackie Robinson: 34-38: 26.76
I am Sonia Sotomayor: 34-38: 26.76
Beatrice Zinker, Upside Down Thinker: 34-38/O: 28.95
Crown: 34-38/P: 34.95
Uncle Jed's Barbershop: 34-38/P: 34.95
Dog Man and Cat Kid: 40/Q: 43.95
Simone Biles: Raising the Bar: 40/Q: 26.5
Jedi Academy: Revenge of the Sis: 40/Q: 30.95
Stella Diaz Has Something to Say: 40/Q: 34.95
Ellie, Engineer: 40/Q: 30.95
Outside Shot: 40/Q: 26.5
She Dared: Bethany Hamilton: 40/R: 31.25
I Survived the Joplin Tornado 2011: 40/R: 26.95
Seedfolks: 40-50: 26.5
I Survived the American Revolution 1776: 40-50/T: 22.25
I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic 1912: 40: 49
Alexander Hamilton: 40: 21.95
Other Words for Home: 60: 35.76
The American Revolution and Constitution: 4-5 Tool Kit Texts: 71.88
Westward Expansion: 4-5 Tool Kit Texts: 71.88
Short Nonfiction for Grades 2-3 by Stephanie Harvey: 2-3 Tool Kit: 19.95
Short Nonfiction for Grades 4-5 by Stephanie Harvey: 4-5 Tool Kit: 41.8
Short Nonfiction for Grades 6-7 by Stephanie Harvey: 4-5 Advanced Tool Kit: 14.99

Total Cost $1,705.13
 

 

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