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Education Foundation Grant Application

Please fill out this cover sheet and attach it to your completed grant application (information on back). Return original application along with 5 copies to the Gahanna-Jefferson Education Foundation, 160 South Hamilton Road, Gahanna, OH 43230. Completed grant applications must be submitted no later than Tuesday, November 21, 2006 to be considered for a December disbursal and must be submitted no later than Friday, April 20, 2007 to be considered for a May disbursal. For more information contact Dale Foor at 614/416-0298.

Project Information Title of Project: Music Leads to Literacy Number of Students Involved: 425 Grade Level(s) of Students K-5 Subject Areas Involved: Music, Reading, Writing, Art School(s) Lincoln Elementary Amount of Funding Request $1000.00

Project Summary (two or three sentences only) This grant will help struggling readers improve reading fluency and confidence while using students’ natural love of music to ignite a passion for reading. High quality picture books, stories, and plays based upon children’s songs and musical literature will be introduced through a number of musical activities. Students will experience literature in the music classroom and then have the opportunity to check books out of our school library to continue their reading at home.

Applicant Contact Information Primary Contact Name: Heather Repasky Position: Music Teacher School: Lincoln Elementary Home Address: 462 Sutterton Drive Gahanna OH, 43230 Home Telephone: (614) 499-7032 Work Telephone: (614) 478-5555 Email Address: [email protected]

Signature of Principal/Authorized Administrator I have reviewed the attached grant application and certify that it will promote excellence within our schools, impact students directly, and foster improved student performance.

______Principal/Administrator Signature Title Gahanna-Jefferson Education Foundation Grant Application Applications must be typed on plain white paper and submitted in the following format. Please include section headings. Please be sure to include the cover sheet as the first page of your application.

I. Project Summary

Students in grades K-5 music classes will read, act, sing, and experience high quality literature in the form of books, and plays based on children’s songs and musical literature. Students will then have the opportunity to take the materials home to share with family and friends. The combination of music and literature will result in an increased excitement for reading and help struggling readers improve fluency and confidence in their reading abilities. Because the materials purchased with this grant are not consumable, students, classroom teachers, and reading specialists will have the opportunity to improve fluency by connecting music and literature for years to come.

II. Project Plan

OBJECTIVES 1. Students will improve reading fluency through performance, discussion and exploration of familiar songs and nursery rhymes.

2. Students will read, sing, write and illustrate their own storybooks based upon examples from our music reading library.

2. Students will expand their love of both reading and music while gaining confidence in their reading abilities.

STUDENTS AFFECTED Over 425 Students in grades K-5 will experience these books in music class. Additionally, all Lincoln students and staff will have access to these resources which will be housed in the school library after they have been presented in class. Because they will become a part of our school library, students and staff for years to come will benefit from this grant. This grant directly relates, to the music, reading, library, and art curriculum.

PROJECT ACTIVITIES

1. Each month I will introduce one to two books per grade level in a variety of ways

Some of the activities that we will do with these books include:  Teacher reading/CD Listening Examples that model fluency and expression  Students reading aloud as a group, as individuals, to a friend, to their class, to another class.  Singing as a class and as individuals  Adding instruments to reflect moods, actions and events in the story  Acting out stories and performing them for each other and other classes  Writing and illustrating storybooks

2. Nursery rhymes and songs used in these books contain a number of sight words that students are studying in grades K-2. I will work with students on identifying, using and spelling their word study words that are used in songs.

3. To supplement this grant I will create a bound book of nursery rhymes for each child in extended day kindergarten to take home and practice reading and singing.

4. After books have been introduced and explored in the music room, they will be available for students and teachers to check out from our school library.

PROJECT EVALUATION

I will evaluate the success of this project by comparing DRA fluency assessments that are completed by teachers in fall and spring.

I will monitor how often the books purchased with this grant are checked out from the school library. I will ask a select group of struggling readers to complete self assessments on how they feel about themselves as a reader at the beginning and end of the year. Students will then compare how their view of themselves as a reader has changed.

III. Project Personnel Heather Repasky: Music Teacher Lincoln Elementary

IV. Project Budget All Books Ordered from Music in Motion

Book Title Order Amount Number Raffi Songs to Read: set of 6 books PB 5872 $33.00 Opera Stories, the Random House Book HB6259 $29.99 Of A-Tisket A-Tasket HB 6905 $15.99 Abiyoyo HB & CD $15.99 6905 Barnyard Boogie HB 9151 $15.99 Catalina Madalena Hoopensteiner HB 6378 $10.95 Wallendiner Hogan Logan Bogan Was Her Name Cello of Mr. O, The HB 6390 $15.90 Erie Canal, The Amazing Impossible PB 7070 $6.95 Drumheller Dinosaur Dance HB 8849 $15.95 My Many Colored Days Kit 4281 $55.00 Going to the Zoo HB 8841 $16.99 Gustav the mole and friends 2 HB and $43.00 CD 9606 I Know a Shy Fellow Who Swallowed a HB 6456 $15.95 Cello Nursery Rhymes set of 11 Hard backs HB 9027 $165 Off to the Sweet Shores of Africa PB 7004 $ 7.95 If I Only Had a Horn HB & CD $27.00 6462

Little Bunny Foo Foo HB 6035 $15.95 Little Stevie Wonder HB & CD $18.00 6039 John’s Secret Dreams HB 9708 $16.99 Rockin Crocs HB 62883 $24.95 Noisy Poems PB Q748 $8.95 Old MacDonald Had A Woodshop PB 6260 $6.99 Senor Don Gato HB 9848 $15.99 She’ll Be Comin Round the Mountain HB 9705 $15.99 Simple Gifts PB and CD $18.95 6883

Sing-Along Stories set of 4 4 HB 9885 $58.85 Tanka Tanka Skunk HB 6893 $15.95 Turn Turn Turn HB & CD 17.95 5033 What a Wonderful World HB & CD 28.00 4735 Nursery Rhymes for Children set of 3 6754 $55.00 books Stone Soup Mini Musical 6471 $16.95 Tikki Tikki Tembo 6474 $16.95 Showtime! Music, Dance and Drama PB 6171 $16.95 Activies for Kids Stories Behind the Classics Set of 4 HB and CD $75.00 9818 Woody Guthrie’s This Land is Your Land HB & CD $19.95 4833 60 books TOTAL 998.95