P-353

Books For Kids

Description

Financing

Documents

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History Logs

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.

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