School Name:Seacrest Country Day School - Lower School
Grant Request Grade:K-5
Grant Request Subject:Language Arts
Additional Details
The Seacrest Country Day School Lower School Sunshine State Young Reader (SSYR) Challenge seeks to foster a lifelong love of reading among Preschool through Fifth Grade students by engaging them with high-quality, diverse, and contemporary literature. By participating in this Lower School program, students will enhance their reading comprehension, critical thinking, and vocabulary skills through structured independent reading and collaborative classroom reading experiences. Additionally, the Seacrest Country Day School Lower School (SSYR) Challenge promotes a vibrant school-wide reading culture, encourages thoughtful discussions among peers, and boosts students' reading confidence as they track their literacy progress to achieve goals.
The Seacrest Country Day School Lower School Sunshine State Young Reader (SSYR) Challenge includes a double-tiered program to allow all students to participate. Preschool through Second Grade readers participate by reading the 15 Sunshine State Junior Books, while students in Third Grade through Fifth Grade set a goal of reading the 15 middle-grade books. Reading may occur through read-alouds at home or at school, audiobooks, in-class Book Circles, or independent reading. Following a book reading, all students complete a SSYR Challenge Reader Response, indicating the student's name, grade, book title, author, and illustrator. Younger readers draw a picture of their favorite part of the story and write or dictate a response sentence. Independent readers are requested to write a 5-sentence reader response to the book. All reader responses are collected and organized in an SSYR Challenge binder housed in the Seacrest Country Day School Lower School Library. All students receive a corresponding SSYR "Brag Tag" to mark their reading progress. Students who complete the Seacrest Country Day School Sunshine State Young Reader (SSYR) Challenge of reading all 15 SSYR books at their level receive a special certificate, gift book, and commendation at the weekly Lower School Monday Morning Meeting.
The benefits of the Seacrest Country Day School Sunshine State Young Reader Challenge are invaluable! Among these benefits are:
*Promotion of a school-wide reading culture
*Camaraderie of shared reading experiences
*Evolved empathy through vicariously exploring diverse people and experiences
*Increased independent reading fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension skills
*Opportunities to develop critical thinking, perspective-sharing, and respectful dialogue
*Enhanced writing skills through SSYR Challenge Reader Response expectation
*Strengthened executive functioning skills through goal-setting, perseverance, and time management
*Enjoyment of a well-crafted story!
The Seacrest Country Day School Lower School Sunshine State Young Reader (SSYR) Challenge can be funded for a total of $619.52. The grant request includes 15 SSYR Junior books (10 picture books and 5 early reader books) and 15 SSYR middle reader books for Third through Fifth Grade students. To support sustainability and conscientious purchasing, the requested books will be purchased through ThriftBooks, selecting used, high-quality books as a first option. The books can be purchased through Seacrest's ThriftBooks account using its tax-exempt status. Shipping fees will be waived. Additionally, the grant proposal includes 2 sets of incentive SSYR "Brag Tags," available through schoollife.com.
619.52
Curveball
12.73
The Bug Bandits
15.98
Growing Home
14.79
The House at the Edge of Magic
15.99
J vs K
13.59
The Lion of Lark-Hayes Manor
6.99
Misfit Mansion
18.40
Punycorn
14.01
Reasons to Look at the Night Sky
13.49
The Sherlock Society
16.47
Swimming with Spies
15.98
Legendarios: Wrath of the Rain God
13.79
Cruise Life: Queen of the Sea
5.69
Forever Ripley
13.99
The Last Resort
11.59
(SSYR Jr) Set of 5 Picture Books: The Great Dinosaur Sleepover, Don't Trust Fish, There's Something Odd About the Babysitter, No More Gnomes, Zombie and Brain Are Friends
80.17
(SSYR Jr) Set of 5 Picture Books: Vampire Jam Sandwich, Oh Deer! Bored Panda, Anonymoose, The Bakery Dragon
74.28
(SSYR Jr) Set of 3 Early Readers: Max, a Little Axolotl, Katrina Hyena, and Box Tales
45.76
(SSYR Jr) Set of 2 Early Readers: Fairy Scout Friends & The Faraway Forest
28.33
2 Sets of Brag Tags (SSYR Jr Set @93.75) & (SSYR 3-5 Set @93.75)
