IRC Grants to our districtFamily Reading Night

2007 $1000 2008 $850 2009 $500 2010 $300 2011 $400 2012 $400 2013 $6502014 $800

Presentation and In-service by Poetry Alive! 2010-$1000

Author Visit 2010-2011 $800 2013-2014 $600 2014-2015 $800

Baggin Some Books 2012-2013 Basham $440 Broderick $400

2013-Little Free Lending Library $300

Grand TotalIn eight years we have received:

Thanks in part to Illinois Reading Council

Literacy Grants

$9,240

How do you do it???

•Get a wonderful idea!!!!•Go to Illinois Reading Council

website to get the grant form. www.illinoisreadingcouncil.org

•Follow the rubric!!! •Evaluation is an important key component.

IRC Grant Guidelines

Needs Statement: Explain why this project is needed, include

local statistics like test scores (ISAT, MAP, AIMSWEB, etc.)

Special populations that will be included in this project, trend data for your service population.

Just stating low socio-economic level and high mobility is not enough to justify need.

Sample Needs Statement The area serviced with this Family Reading

Night is primarily a rural areas comprised of four surrounding communities. The small Pre-K-3rd buildings consist of approximately 300 students of those roughly 53% of students are categorized as low income with 35% being of Hispanic decent according to the most recent school district report card.

This event provides an outstanding opportunity

for language enrichment activities for our second language learner population and their families.

Description of Project

•Project and timeline are well thought out and implementation plans are detailed.

•Scope of project involves: school/institution and family/community•Lasting impact on literacy

Itemized Budget•Budget is detailed and demonstrates

outstanding stewardship of funds.•Be cost conscious, especially with

supplies and refreshments. •Limit the number of incentives you

ask for-think of intrinsic values and low/no cost useful items(homework passes, pencils, etc. rather than trinkets.

Sample Budget

Plans for Publicity• Additional points on grant for local

announcements recognizing IRC as a funding source

• Presenting at conference or writing an article for the IRC Communicator

• Weekly teacher newsletters• Raffle ticket for students to bring to event• Local newspapers and radio stations• Provide links to materials on teacher’s website• Twitter

Plans for Evaluation

•How will you measure success of the project?

•Using rubrics•Evaluation forms•Unique evaluation process that is

described

Sample Evaluation FormFamily Reading Night Parent Survey

Please take a few minutes to answer the following questions. Your input will help us make the program even better next year!

 1.) Was this the first time you attended Family Reading Night?

Yes or No2.) What was your favorite part of Family Reading Night?

_______________________________________________________3.) Which guest reader did you like the best?

________________________________________________________4.) What could be changed to improve Family Reading Night?

____________________________________________ 5.) Will you attend this event next year? Why or why not?

_________________________________________________________6.) Any other comments or suggestions?

________________________________________________________Thank you for taking the time to complete this survey. We appreciate it! Please

return this completed survey to school by Wednesday, November 24th. Your child will receive a special prize for turning this in.

Other tidbits•No identifying information!!!!!!•If you have local support(of any

kind) state it in the application•Have others read your

application

Family Reading Night

FAMILY READING NIGHT

VIDEO

Family Reading NightSchedule of Events

3:30-5:00 p.m. Set Up5:30 – Registration begins5:30-6:55 – Open all evening

Craf t in the gymReading Room - south end of caf eteriaSnack – north end of caf eteria

5:40-5:55 - First Session of Guest Readers6:00-6:15 – Second Session of Guest Readers6:15-6:20 – Passing Period6:20-6:35 – Third Session of Guest Readers6:35-6:40 – Passing Period6:40-6:55 – Fourth Session of Guest Readers6:45-7:00 pm-Return to Gym f or Goodie Bags 7:00-7:30 pm-Tear down and Thank you gif ts

Illinois Reads!

Poetry Alive!® An IRC grant was written for a presentation

by Poetry Alive!® This presentation helped to give our students an

appreciation of poetry as a performance technique.

As a result of our Poetry Alive Presentation in 2010, we decided to have a Poetry Night to encourage students to use the skills they learned after having Nadine and Ken visit. The students used their poetry performance skills for a great night of poetry.

Poetry NightGilman Elementary

Poetry Night has continued as an annual event…

We All Get Into the Act…………

Poppin’ Into Poetry-2012

Poetry in Bloom-2013

Author VisitIn October, 2010 and again in April, 2014 we invited Alice B. McGinity to our school to give presentations to students in Kindergarten – Third Grade.

Alice discussed her book writing process and how she chooses topics to write on. She also mentioned that she has received many rejections before her books have been published. Don’t give up!

Projects from the Author Visit

Books in a Bag

•In 2012, we both wrote grants to create literacy bags for our Title I students.

•Most books in the bag consist of two books on the same theme with a fiction and nonfiction selection.

•Each bag has ideas for parents and additional activities that coordinate with the books.

•All ideas were found at www.readingrockets.org

There are titles for Kindergarten – Third Grade

We have 22 topics available for students to share at home.

“Little Free Library”What is a Little Free Library?

It’s a “take a book, return a book” gathering place where neighbors share their favorite literature and stories. In its most basic form, a Little Free Library is a box full of books

where anyone may stop by and pick up a book (or two) and bring back another book to share. You can, too!

You can find more info on this at www.littlefreelibrary.org

Other Grant Ideas•Local grants??? Check with banks

in your area.•Target Corporation Grants Field

trips and Family Reading Night $2000 in 2013

•Dollar General-various grants for literacy. Awarded $2,225 in 2014 for tech resources for literacy.

Contact us at:

cbroderick@iwest.k12.il.us

cbasham@iwest.k12.il.us