Project Description Massachusetts legislators recently passed a new law that requires school districts to provide means to screen students for a potential language based learning disability, such as dyslexia. The […]
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DY Drones = 100% Engagement
Project Description “As part of a STEM initiative, the library is implementing a drone workshop with our students. This first time interactive program will allow students to explore the social, […]
Read moreStargazing Community Project
Project Description Activities will include viewing the night sky through telescopes, flashlight reading under the stars, solar system games and space art stations. Students and families will have an opportunity […]
Read moreDiverse Novels for Advanced Course
Project Description Starting this year, our school has implemented a new year-long course titled Advanced Literacy to serve those students who have been identified as being exceptionally skilled in reading […]
Read moreBilingual Book Library Book Section
Project Description We would like to start a bilingual section in our school library so that students from all cultures will see themselves represented in our collection. How will the […]
Read moreCelebrating our Culture & Heritage!
Project Description A brand new teacher committee was created this year at the Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School (CCLCS), called the “Heritage & Culture Committee”. The committee was created out […]
Read moreHands on Literacy Centers
Project Description As first grade teachers, we do a lot of reading instruction! We have found that a major piece of learning to read is developing phonics skills. Through phonics […]
Read moreLord of the Flies Unit/ Mock Trial
Project Description In 1995 the Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School was founded, and one of the early traditions was reading the book The Lord of the Flies in 8th grade. […]
Read moreDiversity and the American Dream
Project Description We propose purchasing 2 class sets each (50 books each) of Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson and The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas for 10th grade English […]
Read moreProject Learning to Read in Spanish
Project Description I am an enthusiastic student of language acquisition. We know that today’s young learners acquire language more effectively when they are able to USE the language in context. […]
Read moreHistory and Social Science books
Project Description Purchasing fiction and non-fiction books to support the Grade 2 History and Social Studies curriculum at Stony Brook. How will the project be evaluated (e.g. how will you […]
Read moreFood Pantry Free Library
Project Description I read a statistic that in middle-income neighborhoods the ratio of books per child is 13 to 1, in low-income neighborhoods, the ratio is 1 age-appropriate book for […]
Read moreNew Books for Special Ed Students
Project Description Funds from this grant will be used to purchase educational materials from the Rainbow Resource Center and the Institute for Multi Sensory Education. The Alphabet Series of readers […]
Read moreImage-Making Integrated Curriculum – Author & Illustrator Opportunity for All Students
Project Description This project is designed to go with the “Image-Making Within the Writing Process,” which is a dynamic art-and literature based approach to writing. It is designed to support […]
Read moreDyslexie Classroom Library
Project Description The Dyslexie Classroom Library will be available in each third grade classroom for students with reading difficulties. A few years ago, I started a Dyslexie Library containing books […]
Read moreStudent Book Writing / Publishing
Project Description Class books teach students all aspects of the writing process, publishing and reading. Students share every book written with families. All Massachusetts standards in English Language Arts are […]
Read moreLiteracy for All
Project Description This literacy project, which specifically helps students develop phonemic awareness, will be utilized year upon year. Each phoneme is taught individually as part of a multi-sensory approach to […]
Read moreReady, Set, Read!
Project Description To begin a pilot program introducing an e-book collection for our school, Nathaniel H. Wixon. Utilizing this grant, I will purchase titles and begin an online catalog to […]
Read moreGrowth Mindset Social Emotional Classroom Library
Project Description I would like to create a Growth Mindset Read Aloud & Audio Library in my fifth grade classroom this year. Our fifth grade thoughtful thinkers will be able […]
Read moreSTEM Library
Project Description We have started to collect books for a small STEM library that we are keeping on the STEM floor here at Nantucket High School. We have already collected […]
Read moreBook Bowl
Project Description The Book Bowl is a reading competition in which teams of 3-5 students participate in a question-and-answer challenge based on 15 selected book titles. Competitions will take place […]
Read moreSocial Emotional Health Library
Project Description I would like to create a classroom library of social and emotional health books for both teacher and students. I work with all students in grades 5-8, specifically […]
Read moreRe-usable Bags for Book Fair
Project Description The funding from this grant would pay for the purchase of 350 re-usable, non-plastic bags for our annual Book Fair. These would be given to students and parents […]
Read moreFountas & Pinnell Reading
Project Description The objectives for these funds will be to use the money to grow our Fountas and Pinnell reading system for grades 5-8. We have a complete collection of […]
Read moreInteractive Family Literacy Reading Bags
Project Description The goal of this proposed project is to have families come together around notable fiction and informational texts by engaging in shared reading and the completion of included […]
Read moreFifth Grade Book Clubs
Project Description Reading instruction at the 5th grade level is delivered in a reading workshop format. In this format, the students receive whole group instruction in a particular skill and […]
Read moreSocial Emotional Learning in Literacy
Project Description “Social and Emotional learning (SEL) is the process by which children and adults acquire and effectively apply the knowledge, attitudes, and skills necessary to understand and manage emotions, […]
Read moreLittle Free Library Build: A Collaboration of STEM-Library-Enrichment Classes
Project Description The goal of this project is to build Little Free Libraries for placement around Mashpee. This build is a collaborative grade 6 project using time in the classes […]
Read moreMulti-Sensory Learning
Project Description Students learn differently and require different stimuli to learn. I will be using these multi-sensory learning tools to help ALL children succeed. These various tools such as sand, […]
Read moreRISE UP Reading
Project Description My goal is to improve reading comprehension for students in fifth grade. Using the intervention program RISE Up (Reading Intervention for Students to Excel) by Jan Richardson, I […]
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