Flower Hill Teacher Wins Grants for Classroom Materials
Flower Hill Primary School first grade teacher Suzanne Knoerzer has received a pair of grants from DonorsChoose.org to fund literacy education efforts at the school. The grants amount to more than $4,500.
“I have noticed the impact that reading along with a book on tape has on early readers,” Ms. Knoerzer wrote in her “Stop, Book and Listen” proposal. The project will provide a state-of-the-art listening center and allow students to improve their reading comprehension and fluency skills.
The listening center will fill a need for youngsters to have fluent reading modeled and to hear what good reading sounds like on a weekly basis. “Students will be able to read along with the spoken words, which will also increase their familiarity with sight words and improve their personal vocabularies,” Ms. Knoerzer said. The project includes fiction and non-fiction works, phonics and vocabulary readers, along with classic stories, “to give each student exposure to a wide range of modeled reading.”
The grant will fund listening center supplies, including a table, CD/cassette player, headphones, jack boxes and a complete inventory of books and cassettes in an array of subject areas. The project has been funded in the amount of $3,933.
A second grant proposal, billed “The Write Stuff,” was funded in the amount of $730. “My vision for this project is that our classroom will have the supplies my students need to create as much writing as they choose,” Mrs. Knoerzer wrote. “The project will enable the children to feel limitless in their creative abilities. They will know that they can make as many drafts as they need to in order to produce a high-quality piece of writing. I foresee that the abundance of supplies will empower the students to produce an abundance of creative writing.”
DonorsChose.org allows “citizen philanthropists” an opportunity to review teacher proposals and fund them in whole or part. The organization provides for a strict screening and evaluation process to insure program integrity.
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