You're on track to get doubled donations (and unlock a reward for the colleague who referred you). Keep up the great work!
Take credit for your charitable giving! Check out your tax receipts
Donate
To use your $50 gift card credits, find a project to fund and we'll automatically apply your credits at checkout. Find a classroom project
Menu
Skip to main content

Help teachers & students in your hometown this season!
Use code HOME at checkout and your donation will be matched up to $100.

Your school email address was successfully verified.

See this teacher's page

This teacher needs your help!

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

See what Ms. Travis is requesting

Building Leaders of Literacy

Help me give my students authentic texts that offer opportunities for extension, enrichment, and further development of the rich knowledge webs students develop throughout their current literacy curriculum.

  • Be the first to donate!
  • $440 still needed

expires Aug 24

1.5X
1.5X
Donations matched!
  • Be the first to donate!
  • $440 still needed
Give

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 Project

The texts selected for each reflect characters and subjects with a wide range of backgrounds, cultures, and identity factors, ensuring that all students find connections between domain knowledge and their own lives.

These texts also help students learn about cultures with which they may be unfamiliar, ensuring that students continue growing in their understanding of others and their appreciation of the world’s diversity.

My goal is to use these texts to pique students' curiosity and build initial background knowledge. I plan to use these books to help build reading comprehension.Please help support my students and build our classroom library.

Ms. Travis
Grades PreK-2

Boost your odds

Add a profile photo in addition to your classroom photo. If you add a photo, it'll show up right here on your project page.

You are more likely to receive funding if you put a face to your name.

Upload a photo

Top rated for efficiency and transparency.

You donate directly to the teacher or project you care about and see where every dollar you give goes.

Expand the "Where your donation goes" section below to see exactly what Ms. Travis is requesting.

See our finances

TEACHERS, FEELING INSPIRED?

You can start a project with the same resources being requested here!

Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Little Doctor / El Doctorcito (English and Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $18.95 1 $18.95
Hope's Gift • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Follow Me Down to Nicodemus Town: Based on the History of the African American Pioneer Settlement • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
Fauja Singh Keeps Going: The True Story of the Oldest Person to Ever Run a Marathon • Amazon Business $16.89 1 $16.89
How the Stars Came to Be: Deluxe Edition • Amazon Business $16.83 1 $16.83
Patricia's Vision: The Doctor Who Saved Sight (Volume 7) (People Who Shaped Our World) • Amazon Business $15.66 1 $15.66
Brush of the Gods • Amazon Business $14.39 1 $14.39
G is for Gold Medal: An Olympics Alphabet (Sports Alphabet) • Amazon Business $13.61 1 $13.61
Fishing with Grandma (French Edition) • Amazon Business $12.95 1 $12.95
My Name Is Sangoel • Amazon Business $12.57 1 $12.57
The Arabic Quilt: An Immigrant Story • Amazon Business $11.41 1 $11.41
Dancing Hands: How Teresa Carreño Played the Piano for President Lincoln • Amazon Business $11.39 1 $11.39
Her Right Foot • Amazon Business $11.29 1 $11.29
The Bell Rang (ALA Notable Children's Books. Younger Readers (Awards)) • Amazon Business $11.16 1 $11.16
A Different Pond (Fiction Picture Books) • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Love and Roast Chicken: A Trickster Tale from the Andes Mountains • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Islandborn • Amazon Business $10.83 1 $10.83
The Boy & the Bindi • Amazon Business $10.33 1 $10.33
Love Twelve Miles Long • Amazon Business $10.10 1 $10.10
Fearless Mary: Mary Fields, American Stagecoach Driver • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Sam and the Lucky Money • Amazon Business $9.26 1 $9.26
I Pledge Allegiance • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Berry Magic • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Shante Keys and the New Year's Peas • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Crossing Bok Chitto: A Choctaw Tale of Friendship & Freedom • Amazon Business $8.95 1 $8.95
California's Spanish Missions - Social Studies Book for Kids - Great for School Projects and Book Reports (Social Studies: Informational Text) • Amazon Business $8.39 1 $8.39
Coolies • Amazon Business $8.09 1 $8.09
Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World's Fastest Woman • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99

Materials cost

$334.96

Vendor shipping charges

 $3.99

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.02

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$373.97

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$65.99

Total project goal

$439.96

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $439.96

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $439.96

Our team works hard to negotiate the best pricing and selections available.

View complete list Show less

Support your local school!

Donate directly to any school in the US. Your donation will go towards directly purchasing urgent supplies.

Find a local school

Project Activity

Project Activity
Back to top

DonorsChoose is the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

As a teacher-founded nonprofit, we're trusted by thousands of teachers and supporters across the country. This classroom request for funding was created by Ms. Travis and reviewed by the DonorsChoose team.

See how DonorsChoose works
{"pmaHash":"","schoolCity":"Chicago","showProjectRecommendations":true,"teachersOnPage":[8416367],"isTeacherViewingTheirOwnProject":false,"hideTeacherDetails":false,"schoolState":"IL","teacherPossessivePronoun":"her","PMsManager":null,"schoolGradeType":{"id":1,"name":"Early Education"},"TeacherPMForms":{},"proposalId":8330345,"proposalMessageFormModel":null,"numActiveProjects":0,"completingDonationAmount":294,"teacherHasClassroomPhoto":true,"proposalURL":"https://www.donorschoose.org/project/building-leaders-of-literacy/8330345/","verifyShowPhotos":"","eligibleToBeCopied":false,"mayHaveReplacements":false,"numStudents":32,"teacherScreenName":"Ms. Travis","isEquityFocus":true,"authorIds":{"8416367":{"owner":"Ms. Travis","donationSalutations":{}}},"displayedPercentFunded":0.0,"proposalsOnPage":[8330345],"proposalHash":"-171556158","isApplePayMobileOnly":true,"progressBarPercentage":0.00,"pmaId":"","teacherProfilePhotoURL":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8416367_orig.jpg?crop=960,960,x0,y12&width=136&height=136&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1649797797796","teacherHasProfilePhoto":true,"currentWorkflowStatusCode":6,"teacherChallengeId":21935374,"photosPublished":false,"queryString":"","DonorPMForm":null,"isApplePayEnabled":true,"fundedByTarget":false,"activeProject":null,"donorIdsForImpactPhotoCheck":[],"teacherId":8416367,"schoolCounty":"Cook","fullyFunded":false,"isStudentLed":false,"isExpired":false,"schoolStateObj":{"code":"IL","name":"Illinois"}}
Supporting teachers and students since 2000

DonorsChoose makes it easy for anyone to help a classroom in need. Public school teachers from every corner of America create classroom project requests, and you can give any amount to the project that inspires you.

We've earned the highest possible ratings from Better Business Bureau, Charity Watch, Charity Navigator, and Guidestar.