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Project Goal

The goal for this project is to help 4th grade multilingual students manifest a love for reading and marine environments while increasing their reading levels by starting a bilingual (Spanish/English) ocean-themed classroom library and facilitating a field trip to The Florida Aquarium in Tampa. 

 

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How Project Benefits Students

Growing my bilingual classroom library with sea-themed fiction and nonfiction books and facilitating a field trip to The Florida Aquarium will help students grow a love for reading and become better readers through multisensory, fluency, and reading comprehension support. The information acquired from these books will be brought to life by experiences with the aquarium. Connecting the books to the marine environment will show students that reading can be fun and engaging and the words on a page can be found all around us; in this case, the words can come alive through marine life! In addition, students will be able to improve their fluency and reading comprehension through classroom activities and assignments as well as experiences offered by The Florida Aquarium. First, students will read The Magic Tree House’s Delfines al Amanecer (Dolphins at Daybreak) with the teacher to practice fluency, reading comprehension, and story elements. Reading Dolphins and Sharks next, the nonfiction guide of Dolphins at Daybreak, will help scholars understand text features, gather and summarize information, and compare and contrast. Students will also learn and practice how to make connections between realistic fiction and nonfiction texts. The standards learned in class will be supported by a field trip to The Florida Aquarium. The Dolphin’s CORAL Project will support mostly the following 4th grade English Language Arts standards:

LAFS.4.RL.1.1 Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
LAFS.4.RF.3.3 Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
LAFS.4.RI.1.1 Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
LAFS.4.RI.1.2 Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize the text.
LAFS.4.RI.1.3 Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text.
LAFS.4.RI.3.7 Interpret information presented visually, orally, or quantitatively (e.g., in charts, graphs, diagrams, time lines, animations, or interactive elements on Web pages) and explain how the information contributes to an understanding of the text in which it appears.
LAFS.4.RI.3.9 Integrate information from two texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably.
LAFS.4.RI.4.10 By the end of year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, in the grades 4–5 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. 

 

Expected Outcome(s)

The expected outcome with the growth of my classroom library is to help students develop a passion for reading through real world scenarios like marine environments. The expectation is that students will begin to explore reading topics of other real world applications of what they're interested in and therefore read more and consequently increase their fluency, vocabulary, reading comprehension, and critical thinking skills. This will be measured by the percentage of students taking and passing Accelerated Reader (AR) tests. Students will be expected to increase their AR test frequency and passing rate by 15% from August to March. 

 

Detailed Cost Summary

The total cost for the Dolphin’s CORAL Project including the books and the field trip to The Florida Aquarium is $829.02.

Twenty-two copies of the book Delfines al Amancer will cost $153.78 at $6.99 each book on Amazon.com.

Two copies of the book in English, Dolphins at Daybreak, will cost $11.36 at $5.68 each on Amazon.com.

Twenty-two copies of Dolphins and Sharks will cost $153.78 at $6.99 each also on Amazon.com. There are 20 students and 2 teachers hence the 22 books.

The 40 student tickets for the day field trip to The Tampa Aquarium will cost a total of $280 with each ticket being $7 each; chaperones are free.

The bus will cost $230.10 for a 5-hour field trip. 

 

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