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A Second-Chance: Reading Instruction For Teen Mothers

My students need a class set of 31 classic and modern children's books to increase literacy for teen mothers and their children.

  • $527 goal

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Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

This year, I am teaching a newly-developed reading intervention class for high school students in special education. At our high-need school, literacy rates are low, especially for students in special education. Rates of teenage pregnancy and parenthood, however, seem to grow each year.

Low literacy rates leave most of my students without the basic skills they need to function in adult life. As high school students, they don't have much time to acquire these skills before they will be required to use them. Many of our female students have already been pushed toward adulthood as teenage mothers, and a lifetime of low literacy and decreased exposure to reading threatens to continue on with their children. At a school where we try to encourage students to attend college, it's important that we make reading a natural part of their home culture as well.

By creating a classroom children's library, my project has a two-fold effect. First, it helps to create a safe environment for young parents who are not strong readers themselves. Under the guise of being assigned to read to their children, they will be less likely to feel that these reduced-level materials are too "young" for them. Second, exposure to text and reading from an early age is a critical component of emerging literacy - by increasing their own literacy skills, teen parents can begin to expose their children to classic and modern books that will foster a lifetime love of reading. Students will complete assignments by reading to their own children, helping both teens, infants, and toddlers to become more functional readers and create meaningful family memories around books.

You can help teen mothers and their children learn to love reading together and increase their literacy skills for a lifetime. This project will strengthen our students' classrooms, families, and community in more ways than we can measure. What could be more rewarding than the potentials of lifelong family literacy?

Ms. G.
Grades 9-12

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! Dr. Seuss, Dr. Seuss (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $8.09 1 $8.09
Goodnight Moon Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Arrow to the Sun: A Pueblo Indian Tale Gerald McDermott, Gerald McDermott (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Antoine de Saint-Exupery (Illustrator), Richard Howard (Translator) • Barnes and Noble $8.00 1 $8.00
Mama, Do You Love Me? Barbara M. Joosse, Barbara Lavallee (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $12.79 1 $12.79
Richard Scarry's Best Word Book Ever Richard Scarry • Barnes and Noble $12.79 2 $25.58
Richard Scarry's What Do People Do All Day ? Richard Scarry, Richard Scarry (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $11.20 2 $22.40
Best Mother Goose Ever! Richard Scarry • Barnes and Noble $11.99 1 $11.99
Richard Scarry's Please and Thank You Book Richard Scarry • Barnes and Noble $3.59 1 $3.59
Richard Scarry's Best First Book Ever Richard Scarry, Richard Scarry (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $11.19 2 $22.38
Richard Scarry's Great Big Schoolhouse Richard Scarry • Barnes and Noble $11.96 2 $23.92
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales Virginia Hamilton, Leo Dillon (Illustrator), Diane Dillon (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $11.70 1 $11.70
Where the Sidewalk Ends: 30th Anniversary Special Edition Shel Silverstein, Shel Silverstein (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $12.34 1 $12.34
Harold and Purple Crayon 50th Anniversary Edition Crockett Johnson, Crockett Johnson (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish Dr. Seuss • Barnes and Noble $8.09 1 $8.09
Hole Is to Dig: A First Book of First Definitions Ruth Krauss, Nelson, Maurice Sendak (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.25 1 $6.25
The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eric Carle, Eric Carle (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $8.79 1 $8.79
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day Judith Viorst, Ray Cruz (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak, Maurice Sendak (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $11.66 1 $11.66
The Magic School Bus inside the Human Body (Magic School Bus Series) Joanna Cole, Bruce Degen (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $5.39 1 $5.39
Papa, Do You Love Me? Barbara M. Joosse, Barbara Lavallee (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $14.39 1 $14.39
The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs Jon Scieszka, A. Wolf, Lane Smith (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
Oh, the Places You'll Go! Dr. Seuss • Barnes and Noble $11.69 1 $11.69
Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales Jon Scieszka, Lane Smith (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $14.39 1 $14.39
Earth Shook: A Persian Tale Donna Jo Napoli, Gabi Swiatkowska (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $12.79 1 $12.79
Little Pea Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Jen Corace (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $11.99 1 $11.99
Duck! Rabbit! Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Tom Lichtenheld • Barnes and Noble $13.59 1 $13.59
Revolting Rhymes Roald Dahl • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
Matilda Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
D'Aulaire's Book of Greek Myths Ingri D'Aulaire, Edgar Parin D'Aulaire • Barnes and Noble $15.96 1 $15.96
The Giving Tree 40th Anniversary Edition Shel Silverstein, Shel Silverstein (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $15.19 1 $15.19

Materials cost

$360.58

Vendor shipping charges

 $36.06

Sales tax

 $20.73

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.41

Fulfillment labor & materials

$9.00

Total project cost

$431.80

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$94.79

Total project goal

$526.59

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $526.59

6 Donors

-$263.29

Donations toward project cost

-$215.90

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$47.39

match offer

-$263.29

Match offer toward project cost

-$215.90

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$47.39

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