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Ms. Schildkraut from Brooklyn NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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We Need New Books to Start the New School Year!

My students need pairs of excellent books to help them practice their reading skills with partners!

  • $484 goal

This project expired on November 24, 2013.

This project expired on November 24, 2013.

My Students

Gushing to your friends about your favorite books is easier when your friends have read those books, too!

I met my new crop of students last year.

They are inquisitive, they are full of energy, and they love books! Readers need new titles to start the year with, and many of my classroom titles will be familiar to this year's kids. I've found that seventh graders tend to like books that have characters who are like them or the people they know - not necessarily similar in their situations, but similar in their responses to conflicts and other characters. My new classes will be excited to find characters to empathize with in fresh titles!

My Project

These pairs of books I have requested will allow students to get into reading partnerships immediately, while helping me reinforce the very social aspect of reading. Kids can explore series stories together, and then recommend books to those partnerships who need new titles. Book selection would be managed between readers, and students could have some real agency in their reading lives.

For some of our students, their reading lives exist mostly in the classroom.

When those students come to see that there is joy in reading with others, in sharing stories and ideas, and in feeling close to characters, they may go ahead and look for that joy outside of school. I want all of my students to become the kind of people for whom reading for pleasure is a lifestyle.

Ms. Schildkraut
Grades 6-8

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew • AKJ Books $47.06 2 $94.12
Shadow Children • AKJ Books $36.21 2 $72.42
Artemis Fowl • AKJ Books $33.26 2 $66.52
Percy Jackson and the Olympians • AKJ Books $29.56 2 $59.12
Wrinkle in Time • AKJ Books $25.86 2 $51.72
Cynthia Voigt • AKJ Books $15.52 2 $31.04

Materials cost

$374.94

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.62

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$410.56

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$72.45

Total project goal

$483.01

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