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

Equity in Ed: Supporting English Language Learners

My students need access to our high curricular standards via books they can read and comprehend!

  • $752 goal

This project expired on October 31, 2013.

This project expired on October 31, 2013.

My Students

In 2012 federal legislation began that requires English Language Learners who had been in the US for one year to take and pass grade level exams. Without access to books they can read and comprehend, we have no hope to teach students the skills and strategies they need to be successful!

Our students are 7th graders from various countries around the world.

We have a wide range of culturally and linguistically diverse students. Some have had a lot of experience with English, some have none; thus, their reading levels vary greatly. All of these students have a bright spirit and a desire to succeed. They love to read, but the current Reading curriculum is set with grade-level materials, and with the variety of stages of English-learning, most of our students cannot read and understand the text. These students are ardent in their desire to succeed in school and make this world a better place. Accessible text is just one step on this road for our class.

My Project

These books will help us to teach these students, but are also high interest and reflect experiences to which our students can relate. These books provide our students the platform to achieve the set standards! Since the books are easy to read and comprehend, their time is not spend trying to decode words. Their brains are freed up to do the thinking required of a rigorous Reading curriculum.

Imagine being thrown into a new culture with no friends, little family, and no language training.

Then, imagine being asked to take college Rhetoric and Composition in that language with no English support. You are capable of understanding the content, but the language makes it next to impossible for you to show what you know. This is the reality that our students face EVERY day. Please help us give our students the opportunity to truly show what they know and realize their dreams.

Mrs. D.
Grades 6-8

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
If You Really Loved Me (Urban Underground #4) (Urban Underground (Quality)) • Amazon $8.96 5 $44.80
Shadows of Guilt (Urban Underground #2) (Urban Underground (Quality)) • Amazon $8.96 5 $44.80
Wildflower-Urban Underground (Urban Underground (Quality)) • Amazon $8.96 5 $44.80
To Catch a Dream (Urban Underground (Quality)) • Amazon $8.96 5 $44.80
One of Us (Urban Underground #5) (Urban Underground (Quality)) • Amazon $8.78 5 $43.90
Outrunning the Darkness (Urban Underground #1) (Urban Underground (Quality)) • Amazon $8.78 5 $43.90
The Aftermath, Book 1 (My New Normal) • Amazon $8.06 5 $40.30
The Secret Admirer (Carter High Mysteries) • Amazon $5.85 5 $29.25
Aztec Ring Mystery (Carter High Mysteries) • Amazon $5.85 5 $29.25
Lucky Falcon Mystery (Carter High Mysteries) • Amazon $5.85 5 $29.25
Where is Mr. Zane? (Carter High Mysteries) • Amazon $5.85 5 $29.25
Friend or Foe? (Choices (Saddleback)) • Amazon $5.85 5 $29.25
Easy Pass (Choices (Saddleback)) • Amazon $5.85 5 $29.25
Broken Promise (Choices (Saddleback)) • Amazon $5.85 5 $29.25
Break All Rules (Choices (Saddleback)) • Amazon $5.85 5 $29.25
Drama Club Mystery (Carter High Mysteries) • Amazon $5.85 5 $29.25
No Exceptions (Choices) • Amazon $5.85 5 $29.25

Materials cost

$599.80

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.00

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$638.80

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$112.73

Total project goal

$751.53

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