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Read to Comprehend, Comprehend To Read More!

My students need 26 reading comprehension activity books to enhance their ability to summarize, analyze, outline and explain what they've read.

$579 goal

This project expired on May 13, 2010.

Ms. Joseph Crossland High School

Temple Hills, MD Grades 6-8

I began this year teaching 5th grade Social Studies and Science, but because my background is in English and the 7th grade students were struggling I was moved last month to English. I teach at a Charter School that truly believes that students come first. I taught these students last year, so I know they can be bright and motivated students. They just need consistency and engaging lessons, activities and books. These students are from the surrounding neighborhood which is in the inner city.

Despite the obstacles that many of my students have at home and recently this year at school, I know these students are mentally prepared to learn and to be challenged. When they learned that I would be teaching them the remainder of the school year, they were extremely excited. They remembered my theme that the impossible is possible. So when my students walk into our classroom, they know that they can leave the burdens of their home and social life at the door. If they are hungry, I will feed them. If they don't have clothes, I will dress them. If they don't have supplies, I will supply them. I want my childrens #1 concern to be education.

The school and myself provide so much to these students, but sometimes it's not enough and that is where you come in. I am looking to increase my students reading comprehension skills with a variety of reading strategies and activities. The textbooks that are currently in class just aren't enough. I would like to enhance my Literacy Centers with Nonfiction and Fiction Articles, Test Taking Strategies and Activities that will increasing their reading comprehension. These books are needed to supplement the knowledge that they are receiving, increase their reading comprehension skills and motivate them to continue reading.

Your donations will make it possible for my students to increase their reading skills with interesting activities and reading strategies while learning life lessons. It is imperative that children learn to become readers, understand what they are reading and communicate what they've learned.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More than half of students from low‑income households

HBCU Alum 65 students impacted

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Temple Hills, MD
Grades 6-8
Literacy
Traditional School
Books
More than half of students from low‑income households

Ms. Joseph Crossland High School Grades 6-8

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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More than half 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

HBCU Alum 65 students impacted

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Materials Cost Quantity Total

Junior Skill Builders: Reading in 15 Minutes a Day LearningExpress Editors • Barnes and Noble $10.36 1 $10.36

50 Literacy Strategies: Step by Step Gail E. Tompkins • Barnes and Noble $17.91 1 $17.91

Language Arts Lessons for Active Learning, Grades 3-8 Sharon M. Fennessey • Barnes and Noble $24.75 1 $24.75

Creative Book Reports: Fun Projects with Rubrics for Fiction and Nonfiction Feber • Barnes and Noble $17.95 1 $17.95

Scavenger Hunts: Grades 6-8 Greg Camden, Eric Migliaccio, Sara Connolly (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $13.49 1 $13.49

Promoting the Gift of Literacy: 101 Lesson Plans for Oral and Written Language Rhea A. Ashmore • Barnes and Noble $35.10 1 $35.10

Nonfiction Passages with Graphic Organizers for Independent Practice Alice Boynton, Wiley Blevins • Barnes and Noble $15.19 1 $15.19

Middle Grades Language Arts Book Imogene Forte, Marge Frank • Barnes and Noble $24.29 1 $24.29

Comprehension Homework Packets Grades 4-8: 36 Take-Home Packets That Include Short Passages, Graphic Organizers with Questions, and Practice Tests Jan Meyer • Barnes and Noble $14.39 1 $14.39

Reading Skills, Grades 7-8 Norm Sneller • Barnes and Noble $11.69 1 $11.69

Non-Fiction Text Structures for Better Comprehension and Response: Grades 4-8 Gail Saunders-Smith • Barnes and Noble $19.16 1 $19.16

8th Grade Reading Comprehension and Writing Skills Test Editors of LearningExpress • Barnes and Noble $11.96 1 $11.96

Nonfiction Comprehension: Middle School Steck-Vaughn, Manufactured by Steck-Vaughn • Barnes and Noble $13.49 1 $13.49

Teaching Reading Strategies With Literature That Matters to Middle Schoolers Nancy Fordham, Alexa Sandmann • Barnes and Noble $16.19 1 $16.19

Reading Comprehension Practice, Grades 6-8 Debra Housel • Barnes and Noble $12.59 1 $12.59

Nonfiction Reading Comprehension: Science (Grade 6) Ruth Foster • Barnes and Noble $14.39 1 $14.39

Nonfiction Reading Comprehension (The 100+ Series): Language Arts, Grades 5-6 Norm Sneller, Milton Hall (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $11.69 1 $11.69

Reading Passages That Build Comprehension: Predicting Linda Ward Beech • Barnes and Noble $9.89 1 $9.89

Main Ideas & Summarizing Linda Ward Beech • Barnes and Noble $8.79 1 $8.79

Hi-Lo Nonfiction Passages for Struggling Readers: Grades 6-8: 80 High-Interest/Low-Readability Passages With Comprehension Questions and Mini-Lessons for Teaching Key Reading Strategies Maria Chang (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $28.79 1 $28.79

Reading Passages That Build Comprehension: Main Idea and Details Linda Ward Beech • Barnes and Noble $9.89 1 $9.89

WEEK BY WEEK READING COMPREHE Mary Rose • Barnes and Noble $11.99 1 $11.99

Reading Comprehension: Grade 7 (Core Skills Series) Staff of Steck-Vaughn Company • Barnes and Noble $11.98 1 $11.98

Short Reading Passages & Graphic Organizers to Build Comprehension: Grades 6-8 Linda Ward Beech • Barnes and Noble $8.79 1 $8.79

Core Skills: Reading Comprehension Grade 8 Staff of Steck-Vaughn Company • Barnes and Noble $11.98 1 $11.98

Reading Comprehension, Grades 7-8 (The 100+ Series) School Specialty Publishing, Kathryn Wheeler (Editor), Bruce Walker (Editor), Manufactured by School Specialty Publishing • Barnes and Noble $10.39 1 $10.39

Materials cost			$397.08
Vendor shipping charges			$39.71
Sales tax			$22.83
3rd party payment processing fee			$5.96
Fulfillment labor & materials			$9.00
Total project cost			$474.58
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms			$104.18
Total project goal			$578.76

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Read to Comprehend, Comprehend To Read More!

This project expired on May 13, 2010.

This project expired on May 13, 2010.

Project tagged as

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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