Hi Interest/Lo Lexile Intensive Reading Novels

School:: Fernandina Beach Mid.
Subject:: Language Arts
Teacher:: Renee Thompson
Students Impacted:
Grade:: 8
Date:: March 15, 2017

Investor

Thank you to the following investor for funding this grant.

Woman's Club of Fernandina Beach - $1,000.00

Goal

These novels are uniquely designed for secondary students who are reading below grade level. They reflect the lifestyles of secondary school students and reinforce basic listening, communication and literary skills as well as encouraging students to personally interact with the story. These novel sets can be shared between the 6-8th grade intervention classes.

What will be done with my students

Students will engage in activities on comprehension, main idea, Fact/Opinion. Recognizing suspense and foreshadowing, analyzing main characters, sequencing, idioms and determining cause and effect. Students will increase their fluency with the English language by engaging in a variety of vocabulary exercises such as making analogies, using words in context, synonyms/antonyms, and making word associations. Students will also get review skills in punctuation and sentence structure while writing persuasive paragraphs, summarizing, creating journal entries and explaining feelings.

Benefits to my students

The benefit to students is that these novels can be used effectively with individual students, small groups and/or whole class. Students will be guided to establish a time frame for completion. For students that need a high degree of structure, a schedule will be set for them and they will read and work with the teacher. For students who can handle a more flexible approach-they will read and complete exercises at their own pace. These novels lend themselves to teacher-student conferences where the teacher can monitor progress, help students share their thoughts about what they are reading and how it relates to their own lives.

Budget Narrative

This grant is for a classroom pkg. (6 copies of 5 titles)of adventure novels for struggling readers.

It also contains 2 suspense and a historical package that was only available in samplers of 1 copy of 5 titles. I have requested 6 samplers of each to give me 30 copies or 6 copies of 5 titles.

Items

#	Item	Cost
1	Adventure 1 Classroom pkg. (6 copies of 5 titles)	$263.45
2	6 x Suspense 1 Sampler (1 copy of 5 titles)	$238.50
3	6x Suspense 2 Sampler(1 copy of 5 titles)	$238.50
4	6 x Historical 1 Sampler (1 copy of 5 titles)	$238.50
5	Historical Teacher Guide	$12.50
6	Shipping and Handling 10%	$8.55
	Total:	$1,000.00

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