Tombigbee RC&D Grant Helps Improve Reading

As an Alabama Reading Initiative school, Hubbertville School in Fayette County knew that students do not read at the same level. The school needed reading materials in a broad range of levels. Tombigbee RC&D Council provided a grant for the school to purchase several sets of different levels and genres of reading materials. They purchased a set of 432 non-fiction books and 271 fiction books to be used in small group reading lessons. Students will have multiple opportunities to engage in meaningful discussions about what they read, which will boost comprehension skills.

Students in kindergarten through sixth grade will benefit from the leveled readers. At present, Hubbertville School has 188 students in those classes. All students will benefit--male and female, all races, ethnicity, and academic ability levels.

This program will last indefinitely. The materials are non-consumable and will be used from year to year, depending on their durability. The materials are located in the reading coach’s resource room, on the same floor the K-6th grade classrooms to make them easily accessible to all the students.

Hubbertville School can now provide students with reading material appropriate to their individual reading level, in a variety of subjects. When children are successful readers, they become excited about reading and will increase their fluency and comprehensive skills. As an Alabama reading Initiative school, Hubbertville’s goal is 100 percent mastery of grade level reading. The material purchased with this RC&D grant will allow them to push toward that goal.

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