Rock Energy Cooperative is very excited to announce that it recently presented Yahara Valley Elementary School (Edgerton School District) with a community/education grant to support their "Building Literacy, One Book At A Time" project. According to Yahara Valley Elementary Principal Andrea Johnson, the grant is being used "to support literacy development in the school's kindergarten through fifth-grade classrooms by enhancing classroom libraries, strengthening the phonics program, and promoting summer reading."
Pictured above, Rock Energy board member and board vice chair Barbara Miller (right), presents Yahara Valley Elementary School Principal Andrea Johnson (left) with the grant check in the school library.
The school initiative, says Johnson, focuses on three primary areas, including:
- Ordering decodable texts for phonics instruction.
- Increasing classroom library collections.
- Providing students with summer reading materials.
"Securing this grant will have a huge impact on our school community by enhancing literacy resources both in the classroom and at home," says Johnson. "The grant fits in perfectly with our overall initiative, which is to help maintain reading engagement, prevent summer learning loss, and encourage students to continue developing their literacy skill outside the classroom."
Some of the book titles acquired with the assistance of the grant include (among many others):
- Pete the Cat (K-2)
- Unicorns & Friends (K-2)
- Puppy Place (3-5)
- Lola Levine (3-5)
- Decodable Reader Sets (Stages 1-9)