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Ms. Mendenhall from Bluffton, SC is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Ms. Mendenhall's classroom raised $193

Magazines to Inspire and Encourage Reading Strategies

My students need 25 high-interest, current event magazines to practice reading strategies and provide a variety of reading experiences.

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Ms. Mendenhall Michael C Riley Elementary School
Bluffton, SC Grades 3-5

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My Students

Give real-world reading experience! Students in my classroom are anxious to learn, and would greatly benefit from the opportunity to read real-world, high-interest articles to practice literacy strategies. Magazines would provide much-needed variety to their opportunities to build reading skills.

The students in our classroom are a diverse group in a rapidly changing area of South Carolina.

Many work hard at literacy skills in the classroom, but are unable to practice these skills at home, as their families do not share English literacy. High-interest, intense instruction in the classroom is necessary for these enthusiastic learners to keep pace with their native-speaking counterparts. These students strive to please in many situations, educational and otherwise. Many work as hard in the classroom as they do in religious youth groups, with younger family members, or with athletic teams. They attend a public elementary school of approximately 900 students.

My Project

With the addition of Time for Kids subscriptions in our classroom, students will have exposure to a wider variety of reading resources. We currently have some leveled books within the genres of fantasy, nonfiction, and historical fiction, but a variety of learning paces and styles often makes applying new skills difficult with these texts. Students would benefit from a reading format more similar to the format to which most adults are exposed on a daily basis. They would also have opportunities to apply new reading skills to brief, high-interest text, thereby allowing more immediate assessment and intervention. Longer texts would still be available for comprehension, practice, and developing reading stamina, but strategy lessons could be applied directly to the articles in the Time for Kids magazines. By supplying two levels of magazines to the classroom, reading levels and skills can be differentiated to best meet the needs of a variety of learners.

Magazines in the classroom will not only inspire young readers by providing a variety of reading experiences, but will introduce literacy resources into homes where books and magazines are not often present.

After using the high-interest articles to improve their reading skills and strategies at school, students will have the opportunity to take their literacy skills home through consumable materials.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Nearly all students from low‑income households

40 students impacted 1 donor
Ms. Mendenhall Michael C Riley Elementary School Grades 3-5

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Bluffton, SC View local requests

Nearly all 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

40 students impacted 1donor

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Edition 3 - 4 with Around the World (Grades 3 and 4) Pricing is valid for orders placed after March 2010. After August 15th of current school year, pricing will remain in effect but TIME For Kids reserves the right to prorate issue quantity and free gifts. Only valid for orders in quantities of 10 or more. Orders for less than 10 subscriptions will NOT be fulfilled. • Time for Kids $4.88 15 $73.20
Edition 5 - 6 with Around the World (Grades 5 and 6) Pricing is valid for orders placed after March 2010. After August 15th of current school year, pricing will remain in effect but TIME For Kids reserves the right to prorate issue quantity and free gifts. Only valid for orders in quantities of 10 or more. Orders for less than 10 subscriptions will NOT be fulfilled. • Time for Kids $4.88 10 $48.80

Materials cost

$122.00

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $8.60

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.83

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$167.43

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$25.02

Total project goal

$192.45

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $192.45

1 Donor

-$192.45

Donations toward project cost

-$167.43

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$25.02

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