Find It Fund It Florida - Hillsborough Education Foundation
First-Year Teacher Growing a Culturally Responsive and Developmentally Appropriate Classroom Library
- School:
- McDonald Elementary School
- Category:
- Literacy
- Teacher/
Administrator: - Lindy Gallagher
- 211025
- Students Impacted:
- 35
- Grade Levels Impacted:
- 4
- Date:
- October 15, 2022
Investor
Thank you to the following investor for funding this grant.
T-Mobile - $573.00
Project Goal
My goal for this project is to provide my students with a classroom library that they can feel connected to, grow with, and allow them fall in love with reading.
How Project Benefits Students
Growing my classroom library with multi-cultural, social-emotional, how-to, and different genre books will benefit students in a multitude of ways. Having a classroom library that students can feel represented and seen can help students make a connection not only to reading but to the real world. They can see characters that look like them, talk like them, and relate to them. Many of my students come from diverse backgrounds and often are not seeing themselves in books at school. Having more books on different cultures, different ways of life, and different backgrounds will help students connect. I would also like to add different genre books so that students at all reading levels can enjoy something in my classroom library whether that is a comic book or a chapter book series. Even though my students are in the fourth grade, I have some students who can only understand books at a first-grade level. I have some students who cannot read books in English. Having a more diverse and open classroom library will allow all students the chance to read what they want to read.
Expected Outcome(s)
Expected outcomes with the growth of my classroom library include gaining confidence and building connections since they will have books to relate/connect to; allowing all students to build their reading stamina and love for reading; and opening a world of different options for students to explore what they love to read.
Detailed Cost Summary
The total cost for the books listed above comes out to roughly $573.00.
Items
| # | Item Description | Total Cost |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Harry Potter series | $40.00 |
| 2 | The Cat Kid series | $35.00 |
| 3 | The Magic Tree House series | $51.00 |
| 4 | Notable Native People: 50 Indigenous Leaders, Dreamers, and Changemakers from Past and Present | $15.00 |
| 5 | Iggy Peck, Architect (The Questioneers) | $14.00 |
| 6 | Sofia Valdez, Future Prez (The Questioneers) | $12.00 |
| 7 | Aaron Slater, Illustrator (The Questioneers) | $13.00 |
| 8 | Meet Yasmin! | $5.00 |
| 9 | I Am . . . A Box of Goodness (I Am Books) | $42.00 |
| 10 | Leaders and Dreamers: Bold and Visionary Women Around the World | $25.00 |
| 11 | Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story | $12.00 |
| 12 | We Are Water Protectors | $12.00 |
| 13 | We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga | $13.00 |
| 14 | When We Were Alone | $15.00 |
| 15 | Go Show the World: A Celebration of Indigenous Heroes | $12.00 |
| 16 | The Name Jar | $8.00 |
| 17 | Eyes that Kiss in the Corners | $15.00 |
| 18 | Watercress | $17.00 |
| 19 | Wishes | $15.00 |
| 20 | My Mouth Is A Volcano | $10.00 |
| 21 | Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon | $14.00 |
| 22 | Jabari Jumps | $16.00 |
| 23 | The Way I Act | $13.00 |
| 24 | Chrysanthemum | $12.00 |
| 25 | Minecraft Woodsword Chronicles Collection: The Complete Books 1 - 6 Novel Series Box Set | $27.00 |
| 26 | Even Superheroes Have Bad Days (Superheroes Are Just Like Us) | $10.00 |
| 27 | The Last Kids on Earth Series, 6-Book Set | $35.00 |
| 28 | Dork Diaries x 12 2018 set | $40.00 |
| 29 | I AM: Why Two Little Words Mean So Much | $13.00 |
| 30 | Everyone Gets a Say | $12.00 |
| Total: | $573.00 |
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