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Mrs. D. from Chattanooga TN is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

ESOL Family Literacy Project

My students (and their parents) need bilingual books to practice their reading skills in English as well as improve literacy in their own language.

  • $454 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hispanic students need help learning how to read! I teach 6-8th grade ESL students in a high poverty Middle school in Tennessee. Our school has no money for books, technology or class materials.

Our library is full of books from the 1970s, none of which are on a reading level that my English Language Learners can understand. We have not one book in Spanish and half of my students don't even know how to read in their language.

I need help building a classroom library with bilingual books to promote literacy not only in English, but also in their native language. I want it to be open for their families as well that don't have access to books on their language level and desperately need to learn English in order to survive in the States.

Your help will make sure that Hispanic students learn how to read in English and Spanish, become literate and be able to contribute to our American society!

Mrs. D.
Grades 6-8

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Esperanza Rising • AKJ Books $5.22 5 $26.10
Spanish Literacy Family Involvement Kit w/o PLT's • LeapFrog School $165.00 1 $165.00
Extreme Readers (6 Book Set) • AKJ Books $20.67 1 $20.67
Green Light Readers - Bilingual (4 book set) • AKJ Books $13.78 1 $13.78
Tag Spanish and Bilingual Storybooks, single copy set* • LeapFrog School $90.00 1 $90.00

Materials cost

$315.55

Vendor shipping charges

$31.56

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.89

Fulfillment labor & materials

$17.00

Total project cost

$372.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$81.66

Total project goal

$453.66

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$453.66

13 Donors

-$0.00

Donations toward project cost

-$0.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$0.00

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$453.66

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