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Mrs. Swinford from Elwood IN is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Connecting With Maniac Magee

Help me give my students the ability to have a book to follow along and read on their own.

  • $384 goal

This project expired on July 25, 2020.

This project expired on July 25, 2020.

My Students

I teach 5th grade in a low-income school system. Students are able to learn best when they are interested, challenged, and have hands on experiences. Students don't always see a connection between school and their life, but I challenge myself to bring new experiences to students that challenge them yet directly correlate to the curriculum.

Students strive to do better in order to learn and explore with hands on concepts.

We are hoping to get classroom sets of books to ensure students can have a copy of the reading in their hands. With the uncertainty of our return date, we want to guarantee students have meaningful work. With ensuring each of my students would have a copy of the book it would allow for us to all be exposed to the curriculum at each students pace.

My Project

Students will be able to have a book to follow along with our reading and read on their own at their own pace. This allows for students to use text evidence when responding to their reading. Students will have portions that we may read together and then they are expected to read a portion on their own.

Having a book that they can go back and reread something they didn't quite understand or use text evidence to prove their thoughts is huge!

This book truly allows students to connect with the character and feel this is someone they know. They will learning while finding a way to enjoy reading.

Mrs. Swinford
Never Before Funded Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Maniac Magee • Amazon Business $4.69 60 $281.40
Maniac Magee: An Instructional Guide for Literature - Novel Study Guide for 4th-8th Grade Literature with Close Reading and Writing Activities (Great Works Classroom Resource • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99

Materials cost

$291.39

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.37

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$325.76

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$57.49

Total project goal

$383.25

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