Dollar General Youth Literacy Grant Information

Youth Literacy Grants provide funding to schools, public libraries, and nonprofit organizations
to help students who are below grade level or experiencing difficulty reading. Grant funding is
provided to assist in the following areas:

• Implementing new or expanding existing literacy programs

• Purchasing new technology or equipment to support literacy initiatives
• Purchasing books, materials or software for literacy programs

Maximum Grant Amount: $4,000.00

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Organization Information

Legal Name: Lyman Hall Elementary

Mailing Address: 2150 Memorial Park Drive, Gainesville, Ga 30504

Phone: 770-534-7044

County: Hall

Nearest Dollar General: 2275 Browns Bridge Road, Gainesville, Ga 30501

How long has your organization been in existence? Since 1936

Type of School: Public

Grades Served: K through 5

Overview

Project Title: Struggling Readers like Books Clubs, Too!

Requested Cash Amount: $2,865.00

Number of individuals to be served by funding from this Youth Literacy application: 382

Program/Project Target Audience: Struggling readers in 3rd-5th grade

Has your organization received previous funding from the Dollar General Literacy Foundation? No

Is this a new project? Yes

Project Purpose and Outcomes

Where is the specific geographical area to be served? Lyman Hall Elementary is located in Gainesville,
Georgia. According to https://www.gainesville.org/about-gainesville, "The City of Gainesville, county
seat of Hall County, is located in Northeast Georgia, approximately 50 miles northeast of Atlanta and
100 miles southwest of Greenville, South Carolina. Gainesville is the largest of six cities in Hall County
with a population of more than 35,000. As the business hub for Northeast Georgia,"

What is the dropout rate? According to towncharts.com, Hall County has a dropout rate of 22%

What is the poverty level in the geographical area served? GeorgiaData.org reports Hall County has a
per capita income of $30, 806. This is below the Georgia average of $34,747.

If you’re a school, what is the free/reduced lunch rate? 99%

School District: Hall County School System

Project Design and Evaluation

Project/Program Design: This project is designed to provide all third through fifth grade teachers at
Lyman Hall Elementary with access to sets of high-interest, leveled books. This collection of books will
be used to implement reading book clubs in these classrooms. While most teachers in these grades at
Lyman Hall already implement reading book clubs within their classrooms, our school does not have a
collection of high-interest leveled books appropriate for struggling readers. The books in the reading
book club collection are geared more towards reading levels of 4th and 5th grade. However, the majority
of our students in 4th and 5th grade, read on a 2nd and 3rd grade reading level. Sets of high-interest books
will allow struggling readers to also participate in reading book clubs like their peers who read on grade
level.

Timeline: October 2018 to April 2019

Measurable Results: Lyman Hall Elementary Teachers use the Development Reading Assessment (DRA)
program to measure student reading performance. Prior to implementing this project, teachers will
assess each students’ oral reading fluency and comprehension as measured by the DRA system in
October 2018. Teachers will continue to monitor reading progress of each student using the DRA
formative benchmark assessments. At the completion of the reading book clubs, teachers will measure
students’ oral reading fluency and comprehension as measured by the DRA system in April 2019.
Increases in reading performance from all students is the desired outcome of this program.

Are you requesting technology with this grant application? No

Budget Information

Budget Allocation:

Budget Narrative: The grant funds of $2,865.00 would allow our media center to purchase the
additional high-interest titles listed below. With this grant, we would be able to purchase 6 sets of each
title below. This would provide a collection of 672 books our 4th and 5th grade students would be able to
use for reading during book clubs. The requested titles are books on 2nd and 3rd grade reading levels.

Each Set of Favorite Books for 2nd Grade Includes:

• The Blind Men and the Elephant
• The Chicken Squad
• Clifford's Good Deeds
• Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
• Dear Mr. Blueberry
• The Deep Dish on Pizza!
• Diary of a Fly
• Diary of a Worm
• The Dot
• Fly Guy Presents: Dinosaurs
• The Gingerbread Man
• Grace for President
• Jack and the Baked Beanstalk
• Lon Po Po
• Looking at Lincoln
• Magic Tree House: #48 A Perfect Time for Pandas
• Magic Tree House: A Crazy Day with Cobras
• Magic Tree House: Carnival at Candlelight
• Not Norman
• Officer Buckle and Gloria
• One Tiny Turtle
• Pierre the Penguin
• Seed, Soil, Sun
• Stellaluna
• What If You Had Animal Hair!?

Each Set of Favorite Books for Grade 3 Includes:

• Adventure According To Humphrey
• Bad Kitty Meets the Baby
• The Best Friend Battle
• Brave as a Mountain Lion
• Clementine and the Spring Trip
• Did a Dinosaur Drink this Water?
• Dog Breath!
• Donavan's Word Jar
• Encyclopedia Brown Cracks the Case
• Esio Trot
• How to Be Cool in the Third Grade
• The Hundred Dresses
• Ivy and Bean
• Killer Whale vs. Great White Shark
• Little Rhino: The Best Bat
• Magic Tree House: Midnight on the Moon
• Making Cents
• Moonshot
• MSB: Voyage to the Volcano
• My Father's Dragon
• Oh, No!
• Pocket Poems
• Save the Earth!
• Stink and the Incredible Super-Galactic Jawbreaker
• Who Would Win?: Tyrannosaurus Rex vs. Velociraptor

Each Set of Early Chapter Books for Grades 2-3 Includes:

• The Author Visit from the Black Lagoon
• Calendar Mysteries: April Adventure
• Ellray Jakes is Magic!
• Escape to California
• Freddie Ramos Springs Into Action
• Goldie
• Little Rhino: The Best Bat
• Lulu's Mysterious Mission
• Magic School Bus®: Penguin Puzzle
• Nancy Clancy Secret Admirer
• Ready, Freddy!: Save the Earth!
• The Real Slam Dunk
Each Set of Favorite Authors Grades 3-4 Includes:
• Abby Takes a Stand
• An Angel for Solomon Singer
• Bad Kitty for President
• Battle Bunny
• Because of Winn-Dixie
• The Big Wave
• Bobby the Brave (Sometimes)
• Bunnicula
• Charlotte's Web
• Clementine's Letter
• Dear Mr. Henshaw
• Dexter the Tough
• A Dog's Life
• Encyclopedia Brown Carries On
• Flora & Ulysses
• Fourth Grade Rats
• From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
• Fudge-a-Mania
• The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me
• The Gold Cadillac
• Helen Keller
• Hold Fast
• The Houdini Box
• If the Shoe Fits
• It's the First Day of School…Forever!
• J.J. Tully Mysteries: The Legend of Diamond Lil
• Jake and Lily
• Jake Drake, Teacher's Pet
• Judy Moody Saves the World!
• The Junkyard Wonders
• Little Town on the Prairie
• The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
• The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
• The Mouse and the Motorcycle
• The Mouse with the Question Mark Tail
• My Father's Dragon
• The One and Only Ivan
• Pigs Might Fly
• Pippi Longstocking
• A Pizza the Size of the Sun
• Planet of the Lawn Gnomes
• Ramona and Her Father
• Sarah, Plain and Tall
• The Star Fisher
• Stuart Little
• There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom
• The Trumpet of the Swan
• "Who Could That Be At This Hour?"
• The Worst Best School Year Ever
• You Can't Eat Your Chicken Pox, Amber Brown