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Ms. Guido from Chicago IL is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Access To Literacy Is Power!

My students need high-quality reading intervention materials and resources to help fill reading gaps! These leveled reading sets and intentional instructional interventions will give all of my students at different levels access to appropriate leveled text!

  • $1,836 goal

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Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Students

My amazing students face obstacles many of us can't even imagine. Nearly all come from low-income households and live in public housing. Yet, they come to school each day, try their best, and push through! I want to make each day at school meaningful and comfortable for them as I continue to challenge and support them in the classroom. I work with 4th-5th grade students in a smaller setting to meet their individual education needs. We incorporate small group instruction and 1:1 support. These students have so much potential and creativity! They are just missing the resources in which to express their knowledge and skills!

All of my students are deserving of quality education with the proper resources and supplies to learn and thrive!

To have this happen, I need some extra support in purchasing necessary materials specifically for literacy intervention and support.

My Project

These materials will give my students a variety of different texts to choose form, resources to use, and strategies for them to apply when decoding text. These texts are interesting, leveled, and incorporate exposure to global science and social studies concepts. The teacher intervention books also have passages at all different levels. I believe that having a variety of types of text to choose from at the students' level will give them motivation and confidence to read more! Students who are a couple grade levels behind, will be able to feel confident reading hi-lo passages which have an appearance of grade-level text/structure.

These high-interest text sets and passages will help to engage students who struggle with reading.

Ms. Guido
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
BOOKS SCIENCE GUIDED READING GRADE 4 SET OF 17 • School Specialty $237.42 1 $237.42
BOOKS SCIENCE GUIDED READING GRADE 3 SET OF 16 • School Specialty $201.14 1 $201.14
BOOKS SCIENCE GUIDED READING GRADE 2 SET OF 15 • School Specialty $136.03 1 $136.03
BOOKS SOCIAL STUDIES GUIDED READING GRADE 4 SET OF 13 • School Specialty $122.89 1 $122.89
BOOKS SOCIAL STUDIES GUIDED READING GRADE 3 SET OF 11 • School Specialty $103.58 1 $103.58
BOOKS SCIENCE GUIDED READING GRADE 1 SET OF 15 • School Specialty $97.12 1 $97.12
BKS TIME FOR KIDS INFORMATIONAL TEXT GR 3 ENG SET 3 SET/10 • School Specialty $94.64 1 $94.64
KIT MAGNETIC COLOR CODED WORDS SET • School Specialty $86.61 1 $86.61
BOOKS SOCIAL STUDIES GUIDED READING GRADE 2 SET OF 9 • School Specialty $61.41 1 $61.41
BKS TIME FOR KIDS INFORMATIONAL TEXT GR 1 ENG SET 1 SET/10 • School Specialty $43.16 1 $43.16
BK HI-LO NONFICTION PASSAGES • School Specialty $38.76 1 $38.76
BOOK DIFFERENTIATED NONFICTION READING GR 2 • School Specialty $14.19 1 $14.19
BOOK DIFFERENTIATED NONFICTION READING GR 3 • School Specialty $14.19 1 $14.19
BOOK DIFFERENTIATED NONFICTION READING GR 4 • School Specialty $14.19 1 $14.19
BOOK DIFFERENTIATED NONFICTION READING GR 5 • School Specialty $14.19 1 $14.19
BK EXTRA PRACTICE 4 STRUGGLING READERS PHONICS GR 3-6 • School Specialty $11.35 1 $11.35
BK EXTRA PRACTICE 4 STRUGGLING READERS HIGH FREQUENCY GR 3-6 • School Specialty $11.35 1 $11.35
BK EXTRA PRACTICE 4 STRUGGLING READERS WORD STUDY GR 3-6 • School Specialty $11.35 1 $11.35
PASSAGES HI LO TO BUILD COMPREHENSION • School Specialty $10.15 1 $10.15
BK SKILL SHARPENERS-CRITICAL THINKING 5 • School Specialty $9.44 1 $9.44
BK SKILL SHARPENERS-CRITICAL THINKING 3 • School Specialty $9.44 1 $9.44
BK SKILL SHARPENERS-CRITICAL THINKING 2 • School Specialty $9.44 1 $9.44
BK SKILL SHARPENERS-CRITICAL THINKING 4 • School Specialty $9.44 1 $9.44
STUDENT SIZE BLENDS + DIGRAPHS CHART 11''X9'' SET OF 25 • School Specialty $5.40 1 $5.40
STUDENT SIZE BLENDS + DIGRAPHS CHART 11''X9'' SET OF 25 • School Specialty $5.40 1 $5.40

Materials cost

$1,372.28

Vendor shipping charges

$137.23

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$20.58

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,560.09

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$275.31

Total project goal

$1,835.40

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$1,835.40

17 Donors

-$1,490.40

Donations toward project cost

-$1,266.84

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$223.56

match offer

-$345.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$293.25

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$51.75

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$0.00

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