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Mrs. Kokes from Sterling, CO is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Mrs. Kokes's classroom raised $244

Choice Words - Reading & Writing Notebooks

My students need composition notebooks, theme books and index tabs.

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Mrs. Kokes Campbell Elementary School
Sterling, CO Grades 3-5

My Students

"What are you thinking?" Readers and writers need a place to record their thoughts, reactions, and reflections. Notebooks give students a place to be able to make connections, draw inferences, and connect to text in a meaningful way. All 3rd graders will utilize these notebooks. Please help us!

My students are thoughtful, kind, energetic, inquisitive, and dedicated!

They love to learn and willing engage in their lessons. By actively participating, the students make connections to their family and personal lives. We are a rural, farming community, and have a low-socioeconomic base. Third grade students need school supplies to be successful and grow as readers and writers. With most families getting free or reduced lunches, they also waive school supply fees. Students come to school without essential supplies. Funding this grant will ensure that every 3rd grade student has a reading and writing notebook. They are excited and motivated emerging readers and writers. The notebooks will help them to make their thinking visible.

My Project

Welcome to a classroom where students love to read, to write and work together! Through the use of Reader's & Writer's notebooks students will become thoughtful readers and writers. They will experience shared writing lessons that model strategy lessons for inferring, asking questions, and summarizing. Written responses to literature will help students share their thinking, discover unknown words, and emerge with new ways to be successful readers and writers. The Reader's Journal is compiled of 3 labeled sections - Words, My Thinking, Shared Anchor Lessons. The Writer's Notebook is a tool in which students get daily shared writing experiences & lessons, and opportunities to use the new skills during independent writing.

Your donations - big or small - will help us to achieve a goal: that every individual student will have a Reader's and Writer's notebook to write, reflect, and learn with!

Best classroom practices have shown that maximum growth for students in literacy takes place when students can connect their reading and writing through interactive journals. Please help our students learn.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More than half of students from low‑income households

169 students impacted 3 donors
Mrs. Kokes Campbell Elementary School Grades 3-5

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Sterling, CO View local requests

More than half of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

169 students impacted 3donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
COMPOSITION BOOK,10"X7-7/8",80-SHEETS,WIDE RULED -- Ampad Composition Notebook; Wide Ruled • Quill $2.06 35 $72.10
THEME BOOK,3 SUBJECT 101/2X8",120 SHEETS -- Tops Spiral-Bound/Perforated Notebook; 3 Subjects • Quill $2.87 25 $71.75
POST-IT DURABLE 1 INDEX TAB 22 EA-3 COLORS • School Specialty Inc. $7.59 2 $15.18
TABS POST IT DURABLE INDEX FILE • School Specialty Inc. $3.79 5 $18.95

Materials cost

$177.98

Vendor shipping charges

 $4.85

Sales tax

 $5.16

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.67

Fulfillment labor & materials

$9.00

Total project cost

$199.66

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$43.83

Total project goal

$243.49

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $243.49

2 Donors

-$121.74

Donations toward project cost

-$99.83

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$21.91

match offer

-$121.74

Match offer toward project cost

-$99.83

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$21.91

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