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Mrs. Agostino from Danville, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Book Love: Fostering a Reading Life

My students need high interest novels to entice them to read. Many of these books have been on the New York Times Bestseller List in the past year, and will foster a love of reading.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Agostino's classroom raised $588

This project is fully funded

My Students

Most of my students are high achieving and highly motivated. They do their reading and their homework with the hopes of earning entrance into a four year college. They care greatly about getting good grades, but sometimes lose sight of their love of learning in the process. More specifically, many of them have lost their love of reading. They view reading as a boring chore, one that they do begrudgingly, or even worse, don't do at all. I believe my students need more choice in what they read and study, to entice them to be lifelong readers and learners.

In our high performing community, our students "do school," but often miss out on meaningful learning.

They crave choice and independence in their learning. Also, as in any classroom, I have a huge range of reading abilities. By giving them choice, I can better differentiate instruction and use reading conferences to make sure each student has a book that works for him or her.

My Project

My major goal is to improve student literacy, reading stamina, and reading enjoyment. These books will allow students to build their own content and make reading more exciting for them. Once the students are interested in reading and are confident in their increasing abilities, then they can challenge themselves to increase the text complexity and to read more each week.

I believe we need to trust these young adults more.

We need to trust them to take responsibility for their own learning so that they have more of a stake in their learning outcomes. This will empower them to keep reading beyond the four walls of my classroom.

Mrs. Agostino San Ramon Valley High School Grades 9-12 Danville, CA View local requests 150 students impacted 5donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Rules for Becoming a Legend: A Novel • Amazon Business $26.06 1 $26.06
Nineteen Minutes • Amazon Business $9.60 2 $19.20
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts 1 & 2, Special Rehearsal Edition Script • Amazon Business $17.98 1 $17.98
Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot • Amazon Business $16.51 1 $16.51
Freedom: My Book of Firsts • Amazon Business $16.24 1 $16.24
Truly Madly Guilty • Amazon Business $16.19 1 $16.19
Don't You Cry • Amazon Business $16.19 1 $16.19
All the Missing Girls: A Novel • Amazon Business $15.04 1 $15.04
Zeroes • Amazon Business $12.52 1 $12.52
Library of Souls: The Third Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children • Amazon Business $12.35 1 $12.35
Six of Crows • Amazon Business $12.09 1 $12.09
Glass Sword (Red Queen) • Amazon Business $11.98 1 $11.98
Carry On • Amazon Business $11.75 1 $11.75
Everything, Everything • Amazon Business $11.51 1 $11.51
The Woman in Cabin 10 • Amazon Business $11.44 1 $11.44
All the Bright Places • Amazon Business $11.43 1 $11.43
H Is for Hawk • Amazon Business $11.40 1 $11.40
We Were Liars • Amazon Business $11.32 1 $11.32
The Game of Lives (The Mortality Doctrine, Book Three) • Amazon Business $11.16 1 $11.16
We All Looked Up • Amazon Business $10.58 1 $10.58
All American Boys • Amazon Business $10.58 1 $10.58
The Rest of Us Just Live Here • Amazon Business $10.58 1 $10.58
Noggin • Amazon Business $10.26 1 $10.26
The Storyteller • Amazon Business $10.11 1 $10.11
Two-way Street • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
The Girl on the Train: A Novel • Amazon Business $9.60 1 $9.60
Armada: A novel by the author of Ready Player One • Amazon Business $9.52 1 $9.52
Pretty Baby • Amazon Business $9.51 1 $9.51
See Me • Amazon Business $9.51 1 $9.51
Sharp Objects • Amazon Business $8.92 1 $8.92
Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children • Amazon Business $8.50 1 $8.50
The Jewel • Amazon Business $8.50 1 $8.50
The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey • Amazon Business $6.95 1 $6.95
When I Was the Greatest • Amazon Business $6.87 1 $6.87
Saint Anything • Amazon Business $6.70 1 $6.70
The Mysterious Benedict Society • Amazon Business $5.17 1 $5.17

Materials cost

$424.21

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $38.82

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.36

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$499.39

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$88.13

Total project goal

$587.52

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $587.52

3 Donors

-$587.52

Donations toward project cost

-$499.39

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$88.13

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