Project Description Country: USA Location: San Marcos Total Budget: $5,000 Area of Focus: Basic education and literacy Activity Type: Education: Literacy Summary: Project would provide a free book to every first grade student in the 7 Title I schools in the San Marcos Unified School District. Students from socio-economically disadvantaged homes have less access to books. This limits their opportunity to become efficient readers. "A number of studies confirm that given access to comprehensible and interesting reading material, children and adolescents take advantage of them. More access to reading results in more student reading." (Krashen, 2004) Providing students with a book that "is theirs" and the experience of a community adult reading to them will reinforce the value of reading. It will also enhance SMUSD's existing quality literacy program. This project will require the purchase, the distribution and the reading to students of approximately 1250 books Project Contact Person District: 5340 Rotary Club of: San Marcos Primary Contact: John Wilson Email: dorwilson@earthlink.net Project Status Completed This project is "Completed". This means the project has been implemented and the report was accepted by the district leadership. The project will stay listed on this website as a testimony of the achievements of the project partners. Project listed for the 2013-14 Rotary Year.

Proposed Financing Existing Contributions Towards This Project Date Cash DDF Total San Marcos (5340) 24-Jul-13 $2,500 $2,500 $5,000 Total $2,500 $2,500 $5,000

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History Log Entries 24-Jul-13 by Jedd Thomas Creation of project page. 25-Jul-13 by Jedd Thomas Project sent for club signatures. 25-Jul-13 by Jedd Thomas Project signed by John Wilson. 30-Jul-13 by Jedd Thomas Project signed by Richard Talmo. 13-Aug-13 by Jedd Thomas Project approved by the District Approval Committee. 16-Oct-13 by John Wilson The matching funding from the local club is in the budget. A plan of identifying the book titles to be purchased and in what quantity and identifying a school contact persons and a club representative for each participating school, is being worked out. 11-Nov-13 by Jedd Thomas Check for DDF payment issued by Foundation Treasurer. 24-Feb-14 by Jedd Thomas Project has been implemented and final report uploaded. 3-Apr-14 by Marge Cole Club returned half of unused funds to the District at the conclusion of the project. The grant has been marked complete. 3-Apr-14 by Jedd Thomas Final report approved by the District Approval Committee.