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Ms. Tom from New York, NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Close Readers In Training

My students need 27 copies of Dark Waters Rising and 15 copies of Eight Days: Story of Haiti for our unit study on natural disasters.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Tom's classroom raised $474

This project is fully funded

My Students

My students love books and all kinds of it. They are constantly digging through the library shelves to get their hands on a book. Each time they finish a book, they come back for more. As a teacher I'm constantly trying to restock and provide a variety of text for them.

Standards are demanding more and my group of English Language Learners are struggling to catch up.

Coming from a Title I school, my students are children who are eager to learn and have a limited amount of resources. This project will allow us to get the books that we need to make our unit study successful.

My Project

My students need 27 copies of Dark Waters Rising and 15 copies of Eight Days: Story of Haiti. These books will help us build a strong foundation for close reading workshops to improve my students' literacy skills. With these books, they can work together in buddy groups or independently to tackle their personal targeted goals. Not only will they become better readers, they will be exposed to personal accounts of people who have lived through natural disasters making them aware of current events.

The donations for this project will fund the cost of books for our unit study on natural disasters.

With these books, students will learn how to empathize, sympathize, and become activists in society.

Ms. Tom PS 130 Hernando De Soto Grades 3-5

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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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More than half of 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

26 students impacted 10donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Eight Days • AKJ Books $13.13 15 $196.95
Dark Water Rising • Amazon $6.29 27 $169.83

Materials cost

$366.78

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.50

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$402.28

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$70.99

Total project goal

$473.27

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $473.27

8 Donors

-$385.62

Donations toward project cost

-$330.03

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$55.59

match offer

-$85.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$72.25

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$12.75

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$2.65

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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