This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
My Students
Although my students are in high school, most of them have the reading fluency of a fifth grader. Some have learning disabilities, but more are just the products of a dysfunctional school system. My students have goals that will remain unreachable unless they improve their reading skills.
My classes are full of bright, eager learners with special interests in health sciences.
They want to be nurses and doctors, psychiatrists and researchers. Our entire school population qualifies for free lunch, and all of the students identify as African American, Latino or South East Asian. These young people have struggled through a school system that has often given them unqualified teachers and insufficient resources.
My Project
There are three main strategies for improving reading fluency. One of these is reading along with an expert reader. With the audiobook version of nine books we are reading in class, plus a 6-person learning station, I will be able to have six of my most struggling readers getting exactly the modification they need to be successful in my class while improving their reading fluency. Students will build reading stamina, understand the content of the books, have a chance to focus on their work while going at their own pace, and have headphones to help remove the distractions. I hope that this, along with other interventions, will dramatically improve my students' reading fluency.
My young people deserve to have access to the resources that can help them close the educational gap that separates them from their more affluent peers who will also be applying to medical school.
The audiobooks and listening station are a first step to helping them build the skills they need to accomplish their dreams.
Nearly all 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
The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan, Read by Amy Tan
• Barnes and Noble
$17.82
1
$17.82
Lord of the Flies Read by William Golding
• Barnes and Noble
$20.48
1
$20.48
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee, Read by Sissy Spacek
• Barnes and Noble
$23.93
1
$23.93
Secret Life of Bees: A Novel Sue Monk Kidd, Contribution by Jenna Lamia
• Barnes and Noble
$23.90
1
$23.90
Romeo and Juliet (Arkangel Complete Shakespeare Series) William Shakespeare, Narrated by Arkangel Cast, Narrated by Joseph Fiennes, Narrated by Maria Miles, Read by Joseph Fiennes
• Barnes and Noble
$17.06
1
$17.06
Night Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel (Translator), Read by George Guidall
• Barnes and Noble
$13.67
1
$13.67
Native Son Richard Wright, Read by Peter Francis James
• Barnes and Noble
$32.44
1
$32.44
Slaughterhouse-Five: Or, the Children's Crusade, A Duty-Dance with Death Kurt Vonnegut, Read by Ethan Hawke
• Barnes and Noble
$24.32
1
$24.32
Animal Farm George Orwell, Read by Ralph Cosham
• Barnes and Noble
$29.24
1
$29.24
DELUXE CD AND CASSETTE LISTENING CENTER -- Hamilton Audio Visual; Deluxe CD & Cassette Listening Center
• Quill
$224.99
1
$224.99
Materials cost
$427.85
Vendor shipping charges
$2.25
Sales tax
$39.15
3rd party payment processing fee
$6.42
Fulfillment labor & materials
$35.00
Total project cost
$510.67
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$90.12
Total project goal
$600.79
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal
$600.79
1 Donor
-$95.00
Donations toward project cost
-$80.75
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
-$14.25
match offer
-$505.79
Match offer toward project cost
-$429.92
Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
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