I am a teacher in a small district.
I teach full-day kindergarten. This is my first year teaching. I started my
schooling to become a teacher almost five years ago and from that point on I
started collecting books. However, I didn’t know what grade I would be teaching
or where I would be teaching so the books I collected were for a variety of
ages and readers. Now that I am starting my classroom, I am finding myself
short on early readers that my kindergarteners could use for reading time.
For the purpose of this grant
project I would like to find a grant that would help provide reading materials
to support literacy in my classroom. The materials would provide students to
read books that are at their individual levels so they are able to read and
comprehend the words in their books.
When a child is able to read the
words and comprehend what they are reading they are forming their language,
speech patterns can improve, and this helps to ensure that regardless of the
child’s entry level they are progressing toward grade level standards.
Funding provided by a literacy grant
would open innumerable opportunities for me and my students. I would use part
of the funding to order a subscription to the CC Pensive website made for use
with the Daily 5 program. This program discusses implementation of the literacy
aspects of reading, writing, spelling, vocabulary, and grammar. The other part
of the funding would go toward providing leveled reading materials to my
kindergarten classroom.
One website that offers grant funding
is the Oregon Reading Association. This organization is connected to the
International Reading Association, but is locally operated. They offer reading
grants, technology grants, library services, and connection to other schools
and professional organizations throughout the state and country. This website
is the Literacy Grant from Oregon Education Association- http://oregonread.org/literacy-grants/.
A second website I viewed that
offers grant funding is Grants for Teachers. This website offers a host of
grants. The grants are organized and can be found by looking through the
different sections. Grants can be searched for by state, type, or grade level.
The particular grant I searched for was a reading grant and can be used in all
fifty states. The program is called Books
for Children and provides money to purchase necessary children’s books. This
website is the Grants for Teachers reading grant-http://www.librifoundation.org/apps.html.
The information needed to complete
the grant application for both sites includes basic information like name,
address, phone number, email address, and school information. It also includes
the title of the project and a one page maximum project proposal.
There are several steps that need to
be taken to ensure proper completion of the grant writing proposal. First,
proper research needs to be conducted on the types of grants. Second, once the
proper type of grant is selected, a desired area or project needs to be decided
upon. After the project type is chosen, more research needs to be conducted on
how the project would fit in with the school, classroom, or other organization’s
mission. The next thing that needs to be done is documenting how the funds
would help the classroom and then drafting the initial proposal. There may be
several drafts that follow the initial first proposal draft. After the grant
proposal has been reviewed, edited, and finalized it is time for the final
step, submission.
References
Oregon Reading
Association. (n.d.). Oregon Literacy Grant. Retrieved from http://oregonread.org/literacy-grants/.
Grants for
Teachers. (2014). Libri Grant. Retrieved from http://www.librifoundation.org/apps.html.
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