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Mrs. Entzminger from Aiken, SC is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Bulls Eye! Books That Hit the Mark

My students need 9 sets of 6 books that are at their instructional level to use during guided reading.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Entzminger's classroom raised $369

This project is fully funded

My Students

Help us hit the mark! We know that students reading level increases by the largest percentage when the books they read during a guided reading lesson is at their instructional level. However, we don't have enough books to meet the needs of our students.

Our students are a vibrant, diverse group from different backgrounds.

We are a high poverty school in western South Carolina. We are a school of the arts and offer lots of opportunities for our students to develop their own unique talents and interests. Many of our students come to us without the experiences necessary to be good readers. Our school was one of the first schools to fully implement our districts literacy model. This model features guided reading in small groups with the teacher. We need to be able to provide books at the groups instructional level, but, we do not have the resources available to do that effectively. As the Reading Interventionist, I have some 6 packs of books at various levels, but we need more. I am asking for additional 6 packs at different reading levels to help us build a leveled reading library. Teachers can then check out 6 packs for use during guided reading that are high interest AND at the instructional level of the students.

My Project

I am requesting nine sets of six packs of books that will be housed in a new leveled library. These include historical fiction and nonfiction, science related books, and fictional texts. These will be added to other six packs that I have been using and some that teachers had in their classrooms. I want teachers to be able to go into that book room, pull books that are at the instructional level, or the level that the child can read with some support, of their students. We will use these books to help improve reading achievement in our classrooms. The purchase of these books, will help us get a good start on developing a leveled library. Then teachers can choose the best books for their students and help them reach their individual goals.

We know we get the biggest bang for our buck when we hit the target of the child's instructional level.

When we do that, the growth is phenomenal. We have lots of staff development on improving reading and much of it centers on making sure that students are reading at their instructional level. Your donation will help us do just that, and our students will have the best chance of becoming the best readers they can be.

Mrs. Entzminger East Aiken School of the Arts Grades 3-5

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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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

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Saving the Liberty Bell Marty Rhodes Figley, Kevin Lepp (Ill • AKJ Books $5.42 6 $32.52
Explorers of North America Christine Taylor-Butler • AKJ Books $5.42 6 $32.52
A Big Fat Enormous Lie Marjorie Weinman Sharmat, David McPha • AKJ Books $4.67 6 $28.02
Big Anthony and the Magic Ring • AKJ Books $5.46 6 $32.76
Balto and the Great Race • AKJ Books $3.11 6 $18.66
Baseball''s Best: Five True Stories (Step into Reading Books • AKJ Books $3.11 6 $18.66
Miss Smith''s Incredible Storybook • AKJ Books $5.45 6 $32.70
Who Eats What? • AKJ Books $4.67 6 $28.02
A Color of His Own Leo Lionni, Leo Lionni (Illustrator) • AKJ Books $5.45 6 $32.70

Materials cost

$256.56

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $18.09

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.85

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$313.50

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$55.32

Total project goal

$368.82

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $368.82

3 Donors

-$360.00

Donations toward project cost

-$313.50

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$46.50

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$8.82

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