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Ms. Goshert from Warsaw IN is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Branching Out

Help me give my students grade appropriate and high interest beginning chapter books.

  • $405 goal

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My Students

Our students are a unique, capable, innovative, diverse, loving, and groundbreaking group of students. They are the second group of Spanish Dual Immersion students within our district. They are paving the way for other classes of students in the years to come not only with their enrollment in our DLI program, but also with their thirst for knowledge, global-mindedness, and love of learning.

Our students are going to make the world a more beautiful place.

Their love of learning, language, and culture gleaned through being a part of our classroom community and our DLI program will undoubtedly change our world. Please help us equip and inspire our students by providing all of the necessary items for them to be successful and to showcase their learning.

My Project

Second-grade students are just beginning to dive into the land of chapter books. Branching out is scary and intimidating for many students who are used to colorfully illustrated picture book pages with few words per page.

Please consider helping our students branch out into the brand new world of chapter books with the Branches Series.

After personal research and consideration, we have found that the Branches Series of chapter books is a great resource to help students confidently make the transition from picture to chapter books. These books are colorful, contain lovable chapters, and are thoughtfully designed with the primary reader in mind.

The Branches Series by Scholastic is specifically designed for students who are branching out from picture books to chapter books. The guided reading levels of these books range from K-O. This text range is a second grade "sweet spot" as students are expected to be reading at level M at the end of the school year.

Our hope is that these texts will help students fall in love with chapter books and reading! We cannot wait to have our students fall in love with each series and their characters. We also cannot wait to see their confidence in reading grow as they make the realization that "hey, I read a whole chapter book" for the first time.

Ms. Goshert
Grades PreK-2

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Press Start! - Branches Book Collection Set - ( 6 Books ) • Amazon Business $34.99 1 $34.99
Kung Pow Chicken Set of 4 Paperback Books • Amazon Business $29.99 1 $29.99
Last Firehawk Series Set ( Books 1- 4) • Amazon Business $29.99 1 $29.99
Saving the Sun Dragon: A Branches Book (Dragon Masters #2) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
The Cloud Kingdom: A Branches Book (The Last Firehawk #7) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Escape from Egypt: A Branches Book (Time Jumpers #2) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Boris on the Move: A Branches Book (Boris #1) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Song of the Poison Dragon: A Branches Book (Dragon Masters #5) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Search for the Lightning Dragon: A Branches Book (Dragon Masters #7) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Hero Dog!: A Branches Book (Hilde Cracks the Case #1) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Tooth Bandits: A Branches Book (Stella and the Night Sprites #2) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Knit-Knotters: A Branches Book (Stella and the Night Sprites #1) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Boris Gets a Lizard: A Branches Book (Boris #2) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Bo and the Dragon-Pup: A Branches Book (Unicorn Diaries) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
The Three Little Pugs: A Branches Book (Princess Pink and the Land of Fake-Believe #3) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
The Shadowlands: A Branches Book (The Last Firehawk #5) (5) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Secret of the Water Dragon: A Branches Book (Dragon Masters #3) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Fast-Forward to the Future: A Branches Book (Time Jumpers #3) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Power of the Fire Dragon: A Branches Book (Dragon Masters #4) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Fire! Fire!: A Branches Book (Hilde Cracks the Case #3) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Howl at the Moon: A Branches Book (Haggis and Tank Unleashed #3) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Bo the Brave: A Branches Book (Unicorn Diaries) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Boris Sees the Light: A Branches Book (Boris #4) • Amazon Business $4.98 1 $4.98
The Magic Mirror: A Branches Book (Once Upon a Fairy Tale #1) • Amazon Business $4.89 1 $4.89
Pug Blasts Off: A Branches Book (Diary of a Pug #1) • Amazon Business $4.79 1 $4.79
Pug’s Snow Day: A Branches Book (Diary of a Pug #2) • Amazon Business $4.79 1 $4.79
Stealing the Sword: A Branches Book (Time Jumpers #1) • Amazon Business $4.79 1 $4.79
Jack and the Snackstalk: A Branches Book (Princess Pink and the Land of Fake-Believe #4) • Amazon Business $4.74 1 $4.74
Bo's Magical New Friend: A Branches Book (Unicorn Diaries #1) • Amazon Business $4.73 1 $4.73
Digging for Dinos: A Branches Book (Haggis and Tank Unleashed #2) • Amazon Business $4.69 1 $4.69
Chill of the Ice Dragon: A Branches Book (Dragon Masters #9) • Amazon Business $4.59 1 $4.59
Dodging Dinosaurs: A Branches Book (Time Jumpers #4) • Amazon Business $4.59 1 $4.59
The Stolen Slipper: A Branches Book (Once Upon a Fairy Tale #2) • Amazon Business $4.59 1 $4.59
The Land of the Spring Dragon: A Branches Book (Dragon Masters #14) • Amazon Business $4.49 1 $4.49
Flight of the Moon Dragon: A Branches Book (Dragon Masters #6) • Amazon Business $4.49 1 $4.49
Rise of the Earth Dragon: A Branches Book (Dragon Masters #1) • Amazon Business $4.19 1 $4.19
All Paws on Deck: A Branches Book (Haggis and Tank Unleashed #1) • Amazon Business $4.16 1 $4.16
Meltdown Madness: A Branches Book (Looniverse #2) • Amazon Business $4.15 1 $4.15
Waking the Rainbow Dragon: A Branches Book (Dragon Masters #10) • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Bear on the Loose!: A Branches Book (Hilde Cracks the Case #2) • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
UFO Spotted!: A Branches Book (Hilde Cracks the Case #4) • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
The Battle for Perodia: A Branches Book (The Last Firehawk #6) • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Treasure of the Gold Dragon: A Branches Book (Dragon Masters #12) (12) • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Eye of the Earthquake Dragon: A Branches Book (Dragon Masters #13) • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Shine of the Silver Dragon: A Branches Book (Dragon Masters #11) • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Tornado Hits!: A Branches Book (Hilde Cracks the Case #5) • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Roar of the Thunder Dragon: A Branches Book (Dragon Masters #8) • Amazon Business $3.56 1 $3.56
Little Red Quacking Hood: A Branches Book (Princess Pink and the Land of Fake-Believe #2) • Amazon Business $3.43 1 $3.43
Boris for the Win: A Branches Book (Boris #3) • Amazon Business $3.33 1 $3.33
Stranger Things: A Branches Book (Looniverse #1) • Amazon Business $3.33 1 $3.33

Materials cost

$309.00

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.64

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$343.64

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$60.64

Total project goal

$404.28

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$404.28

9 Donors

-$354.28

Donations toward project cost

-$301.14

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$53.14

match offer

-$50.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$42.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$7.50

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