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January, 2004, checks in the amount of $200 each were sent to these recipients
of the ORA Literacy Special Projects Grants. Congratulations!
1.Barbara Keller of the Portland Council is
purchasing classroom sets of novels, dealing topics such as peer pressure,
friendship, love, and making difficult choices, to be used by her below-grade-level
readers in English classes for 9th to 12th grades.
2. Stacy Johnson of the Rogue Valley Council
received funding to help her rural school purchase reading materials for
struggling 6th graders to work as literacy cross-age tutors with 3rd students,
providing literacy benefits for both age groups.
3. Tora Bengochea of the Rogue Valley Council
is purchasing additional low level Real Kid Readers for her first and
second grade students’ take home envelopes which contain a book,
vocabulary words, a puzzle sentence, and directions for activities that
parents can do with their children.
4. Karen Pollard of the Portland Council
is purchasing picture books to help teach the modes, traits, author’s
craft and mechanics of writing, thereby weaving Children’s Literature
into the writers workshop.
5. Rick Buening is a member of Three Sisters
Council in Bend. His grant money will purchase additional books
for use with the Accelerated Reading Program that he uses with high school
age boys at the J Bar J Learning Center.
6. Librarian Jann Tankersley, of the Vineyard
Valleys Council, is receiving funding to assemble science learning
packs, which pair a nonfiction book and a fiction book with accompanying
activities, on a wide variety of science topics for primary-level science
units.
7. Beth Bennison from the Driftwood Council,
is creating Take-Home Literacy Packs for 80 kindergarten students at her
school. A pack would typically have 2-5 books on a theme with related
extension ideas and materials.
8. Marcia Trujillo from the Emerald
Empire Council, is purchasing fiction, nonfiction and poetry
book sets on the theme of the Desert. These books would provide variety,
cater to different reading levels: easy, average, challenging, and would
be available for a variety of reading and writing experiences.
9. Christal Thomson of the Portland Council
received funding to purchase books that are of high interest, but low
reading level written for young adults for her two Life Skills Humanities
classes.
10. Jean Townes, a member of Mid-Valley
Council, received funding to purchase additional emergent readers
for her school in order to create book bins to be used as children move
beyond the earliest emergent reading to the next level.
11. Meg Miranda, of Mid-Valley Council
will use her funds to purchase multiple copies of books chosen with the
reluctant reader in mind in order to implement a “Readers As Leaders”
program, which encourages student “leaders” to recommend books
they have read to their peers.
Members of the evaluating committee:
Beverly Farris, Karen Antikajian, Carol Brown,
and Gladys Camber.
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