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Ms. Southwick from Roxbury, MA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Communicating with Books!

My students need high interest books that offer content to learn how to communicate socially within their classrooms while providing a platform to develop the language skills needed to answer text-based questions.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Southwick's classroom raised $253

This project is fully funded

My Students

My students all have communication delays and disorders that make learning and communicating an everyday challenge. These challenges also include understanding and using social language. To teach them the language skills they need to access text based questions and allow them to develop social communication skills they need high interest and academic based social skills books. This project will help support my highly motivated 2nd to 5th grade students who are hungry to find academic success in their classrooms and be an effective communicator in their social and academic settings.

My Project

The students I work with have a variety of speech and language delays and disorders that prevent them from accessing the curriculum in their classrooms. For all of my students, these books will offer them a highly stimulable text to learn both effective pragmatic skills and continue to develop their ability answer high level text based questions.

This collection of books will be used to teach my students how to "communicate with confidence." The collection of books target important skills such as accepting feedback, mindset, taking responsibility of one's learning, learning to hear "no", sharing and teamwork.

Learning these skills will increase my students ability to be effective communicators within their classrooms. They will also be used as platforms to develop the language skills necessary to answer high level text-based questions.

Ms. Southwick Ellis Mendell Elementary School 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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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

30 students impacted 2donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
I Just Don't Like the Sound of No! Activity Guide for Teachers: Classroom Ideas for Teaching the Skills of Accepting 'No' for an Answer and Disagreein • Amazon Business $16.43 1 $16.43
I Can't Believe You Said That!: Activity Guide for Teachers: Classroom Ideas for Teaching Students to Use Their Social Filters (Best Me I Can Be!) • Amazon Business $15.25 1 $15.25
Your Fantastic Elastic Brain: Stretch It, Shape It • Amazon Business $13.26 1 $13.26
Stand in My Shoes: Kids Learning About Empathy • Amazon Business $10.95 1 $10.95
What Shoes Will You Wear? • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
Bubble Gum Brain • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
That Rule Doesn't Apply to Me! (Responsible Me!) • Amazon Business $9.82 1 $9.82
But It's Not My Fault! (Responsible Me!) • Amazon Business $9.30 1 $9.30
Teamwork Isn't My Thing, and I Don't Like to Share! (Best Me I Can Be!) • Amazon Business $8.85 1 $8.85
I Can't Believe You Said That!: My Story about Using My Social Filter...or Not! (Best Me I Can Be!) • Amazon Business $8.84 1 $8.84
The Technology Tail: A Digital Footprint Story (Communicate with Confidence) • Amazon Business $8.58 1 $8.58
It's Hard To Be a Verb! • Amazon Business $8.45 1 $8.45
My Mouth Is a Volcano Activity and Idea Book • Amazon Business $8.45 1 $8.45
What Were You Thinking?: Learning to Control Your Impulses (Executive Function) • Amazon Business $8.40 1 $8.40
But It's Just A Game • Amazon Business $7.84 1 $7.84
Well, I Can Top That (Communicate With Confidence) (Communicating with Confidence) • Amazon Business $7.78 1 $7.78
I Just Want to Do It My Way! My Story about Staying on Task and Asking for Help • Amazon Business $7.06 1 $7.06
The Worst Day of My Life Ever! (Best Me I Can Be) • Amazon Business $6.35 1 $6.35
I Just Don't Like the Sound of No! My Story About Accepting No for an Answer and Disagreeing the Right Way! (Best Me I Can Be) • Amazon Business $6.35 1 $6.35

Materials cost

$181.86

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.73

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$214.59

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$37.87

Total project goal

$252.46

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$252.46

1 Donor

-$126.23

Donations toward project cost

-$107.30

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$18.93

match offer

-$126.22

Match offer toward project cost

-$107.29

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$18.93

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.01

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

$0.00

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