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

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Diverse Learners Improve Reading with Leveled Books of Interest

Help me give my students books of their interest and at their level so they may enjoy independent reading!

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Bevly's classroom raised $994

This project is fully funded

My Students

My students are sixth to eighth graders with exceptional needs in an urban, public, neighborhood school in the third largest district in the country. My school had been on academic warning status with the state for 12 years due to low test scores. I am proud to say, these past two years we have done it! My school is officially a level 1 school. The school averages in the 53rd percentile in reading and in the 44th percentile in math compared to the national average. My school enrolls 348 students in an old building that can hold 750.

My school community is 100% African American and 96% low-income.

Students live within the school boundaries. My students have learning disabilities with audio and visual learning styles. Despite their disabilities, my students are strong and persevere.

My Project

My students need library books they are interested in reading. My students have limited to low reading ability and will shut down because they don’t want other students to know.

I chose this project because my students have returned to in-person learning, have limited and low reading ability and need books of their interest to read independently and at home.

My students need low leveled high-interest books so they can increase their love of reading and read independently. Ultimately, students will utilize reading strategies to better comprehend text and improve their reading levels.

Ms. Bevly Mann Elementary School Grades 6-8

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Sit-In • AKJ Education $13.86 2 $27.72
The Giving Tree • AKJ Education $13.13 2 $26.26
The House on Mango Street • AKJ Education $7.48 2 $14.96
Little House in the Big Woods (Common Core Exemplar) • AKJ Education $7.29 2 $14.58
Charlotte's Web (full color) (Common Core Exemplar) • AKJ Education $7.29 2 $14.58
Out of My Mind • AKJ Education $6.99 2 $13.98
Stargirl • AKJ Education $6.56 2 $13.12
The Hundred Dresses • AKJ Education $6.56 2 $13.12
Tikki Tikki Tembo • AKJ Education $6.56 2 $13.12
A Long Way From Chicago A Novel in Stories • AKJ Education $6.56 2 $13.12
By The Great Horn Spoon! • AKJ Education $6.56 2 $13.12
Bud, Not Buddy • AKJ Education $6.29 2 $12.58
Holes • AKJ Education $6.29 2 $12.58
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry • AKJ Education $6.29 2 $12.58
Hatchet • AKJ Education $6.16 2 $12.32
The Skin I'm In • AKJ Education $5.98 2 $11.96
The Cricket in Times Square • AKJ Education $5.83 2 $11.66
The Borrowers • AKJ Education $5.83 2 $11.66
Tea With Milk • AKJ Education $5.83 2 $11.66
Dancing Home • AKJ Education $5.83 2 $11.66
The Kite Fighters • AKJ Education $5.83 2 $11.66
The Grapes of Math • AKJ Education $5.83 2 $11.66
Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer • AKJ Education $5.83 2 $11.66
Elijah of Buxton • AKJ Education $5.83 2 $11.66
Bezus and Ramona • AKJ Education $5.83 2 $11.66
The Fantastic Undersea Life of Jacques Cousteau • AKJ Education $5.83 2 $11.66
The Wall • AKJ Education $5.83 2 $11.66
The Twenty-one Balloons • AKJ Education $5.83 2 $11.66
Seesaw Girl • AKJ Education $5.83 2 $11.66
Homer Price (Puffin Modern Classics) • AKJ Education $5.83 2 $11.66
Stuart Little: 60th Anniversary Edition • AKJ Education $5.83 2 $11.66
How Tia Lola Came to (Visit) Stay • AKJ Education $5.83 2 $11.66
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Puffin Modern Classics) • AKJ Education $5.83 2 $11.66
King of the Wind • AKJ Education $5.83 2 $11.66
Shiloh Season • AKJ Education $5.83 2 $11.66
John Henry • AKJ Education $5.59 2 $11.18
The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics) • AKJ Education $5.59 2 $11.18
The Indian in the Cupboard • AKJ Education $5.59 2 $11.18
James and the Giant Peach • AKJ Education $5.59 2 $11.18
The Circulatory Story • AKJ Education $5.57 2 $11.14
A Long Walk to Water • AKJ Education $5.28 2 $10.56
Poppy • AKJ Education $5.13 2 $10.26
Pippi Longstocking (Puffin Modern Classics) • AKJ Education $5.10 2 $10.20
The Castle in the Attic • AKJ Education $5.10 2 $10.20
The Velveteen Rabbit • AKJ Education $5.10 2 $10.20
J.T. • AKJ Education $5.10 2 $10.20
A Wrinkle in Time • AKJ Education $4.89 2 $9.78
Stone Fox: 30th Anniversary Edition • AKJ Education $4.89 2 $9.78
The Stories Julian Tells • AKJ Education $4.37 2 $8.74
The Million Dollar Shot • AKJ Education $4.37 2 $8.74
On the Blue Comet • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Flipped • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
I Am Rosa Parks • AKJ Education $3.64 2 $7.28
The Tale of Despereaux • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Lives of the Athletes: Thrills, Spills (and What the Neighbors Thought) • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Puffin Modern Classics) • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Wringer • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
When You Reach Me • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
The Witch of Blackbird Pond • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Walk Two Moons • AKJ Education $6.29 1 $6.29
The Phantom Tollbooth • AKJ Education $6.29 1 $6.29
Julie of the Wolves • AKJ Education $5.95 1 $5.95
Flora & Ulysses • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Jackie & Me • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Blubber • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Adam of the Road (Puffin Modern Classics) • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
How to Steal a Dog • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Summer of the Swans, The (Puffin Modern Classics) • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Running Out Of Time • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Sammy Keyes and the Killer Cruise • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Harriet the Spy • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Hate That Cat: A Novel • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Keeping Score • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
The Lemonade War • AKJ Education $5.59 1 $5.59
Love That Dog • AKJ Education $5.59 1 $5.59
Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case • AKJ Education $5.39 1 $5.39
Encyclopedia Brown Solves Them All • AKJ Education $5.39 1 $5.39
Dracula (Spanish Edition) • AKJ Education $5.22 1 $5.22
The Door in the Wall • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Encyclodedia Brown Boy Detective • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37

Materials cost

$796.29

Vendor shipping charges

 $6.00

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.94

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$844.23

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$148.98

Total project goal

$993.21

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $993.21

1 Donor

-$496.60

Donations toward project cost

-$422.11

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$74.49

match offer

-$496.61

Match offer toward project cost

-$422.12

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$74.49

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