High Interest/Low Level Reading-Fictional Books & Games. To purchase reading materials designed to capture students? interest by offering subjects relevant to today?s youth. The grant is geared toward students with Individual Education Plans who have not mastered grade level reading.
Funding to purchase supplemental readers for Spanish classes. The readers enhance language comprehension as well as interest in the Spanish speaking cultures and society.
To purchase digital presenters which provide the Social Sciences with the necessary tool to use the most current resources in world events, politics, history and economics ? while conserving paper.
Joan O'Lear's ESL students have very little if any formal education. They are typically illiterate in their native language and have no proficiency in other subject areas. A variety of educational materials will be purchased for Ms. O'Lear's class so students can progress in their education while learning english at the same time. Their will be a tutorial relationship with Danny Brolliar's class at Tahoe Lake Elementary and a science class to foster self esteem, multicultural diversity and reinforce concepts.
A large screen television monitor will be used to display student writing for evaluation and discussion. Writting models can be sued for comment and edification to give students a chance of achieving their greatest writing style and voice. The teacher has already purchased components necessary to modify her computer into a screen monitor which will accept info both from disk and direct typing.
