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Mrs. Markgraf from Madison WI is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Motivating Lifelong Readers

My students need book sets from the Brand New Readers Series to fill their classroom library with books that are as interesting and meaningful as possible.

  • $222 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

Some of my students have not yet discovered books that capture their imaginations. This could be the year that magic happens and they fall in love with books! Unfortunately the books I have access to aren't very engaging and relevant to my first graders.

I have sixteen students in my first-grade classroom.

Our school has 42% English-language learners and 57% of students from low-income families. Our school has over 500 students, and only has kindergarten through second-grade. This allows for a variety of opportunities for collaboration among teachers and grouping students for guided reading groups. The majority of my class is below grade-level for reading, and needs intensive reading intervention in order to get them up to speed.

My Project

A teammate of mine uses the Brand New Readers and her students are in love with every book they read! I can't wait for my students to fall in love with our classroom library, as well. These book sets, from the Brand New Readers Series, will be used on a daily basis, whether the students read them during reading group, have them in their book boxes for independent reading, or even for their take-home reading bags.

Understanding what we read involves a set of skills and strategies that begin early in life and that continue to become refined and deepen as the years go by.

Meaningful and engaging books make this possible, and the earlier we can support children on the road to understanding, the better.

Mrs. Markgraf
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Brand New Readers Classroom Box • Amazon $135.00 1 $135.00
Brand New Readers: Orange Set (Cat and Mouse, Pizza, Dinah's Dream, Dinah Likes to Eat, Kazam's Birds, Kazam's Coins, Where Is Tabby Cat?, Cat Bath, Monkey the Mummy, and Monkey Flies Away) • Amazon $10.70 1 $10.70
Brand New Readers Purple Set • Amazon $10.33 1 $10.33

Materials cost

$156.03

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.34

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$188.37

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$33.24

Total project goal

$221.61

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$221.61

5 Donors

-$90.81

Donations toward project cost

-$77.19

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$13.62

Matching donations from our partners

-$130.80

Match offers toward project cost

-$111.18

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$19.62

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$0.00

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