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Oh, The Places We'll Go.. A Reading/Literacy Program

My students need 4 bean bag chairs, 15 subscriptions to Weekly Reader's Current Events magazine and 15 copies of "My Life In Dog Years".

  • $518 goal

This project expired on January 28, 2009.

This project expired on January 28, 2009.

Ms. N. Myrtle Grove Middle School
Wilmington, NC Grades 6-8

I am a first year 8th grade Language Arts teacher teaching 4 Language Arts classes as well as a DEAR (Drop Everything And Read) program for lower level students who really struggle with reading.

Our school has a relatively high percentage of very poor children. I am a first year teacher and am very limited on funding from myself as well as from the school/district. I am working with low level readers who deserve a chance to learn how to love reading with different types of materials.

I am asking for supplies to promote literacy and reading by showing them different methods my students may not have thought about before. Bean bag chairs are a fun way to curl up with a good book. Current event magazines are a different method to teach reading by showing students that you can enjoy reading in different forms other than the sometimes overwhelming novel. Finally, the novel "My Life in Dog Years", by Gary Paulsen is a funny, interesting, vivid novel my students and I can read, and enjoy, together.

Your help will, without a doubt, change the lives of many students forever. You can help promote a love of reading and greater literacy. You will be giving a great gift to my students, the joy of reading, something that they will have for the rest of their lives.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households

Never Before Funded 28 students impacted
Ms. N. Myrtle Grove Middle School Grades 6-8

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Wilmington, NC View local requests

More than three‑quarters 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

Never Before Funded 28 students impacted

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
My Life in Dog Years Gary Paulsen, Ruth Wright Paulsen (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $5.39 15 $80.85
Large Bean Bag Chair, Dark Blue Denim • Highsmith Inc. $42.54 2 $85.08
Large Bean Bag Chair, Light Blue Denim • Highsmith Inc. $42.54 2 $85.08
Current Events (For Orders of 10 or More Subscriptions) • Weekly Reader $6.48 15 $97.20

Materials cost

$348.21

Vendor shipping charges

 $34.82

Sales tax

 $14.80

3rd party payment processing fee

$8.71

Fulfillment labor & materials

$17.00

Total project cost

$424.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$93.07

Total project goal

$517.07

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