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Mrs. Schrage from Springfield, IL is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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ESL Students Need Help Reading!

My students need novels to help them learn and understand what they are studying in the history and English classrooms.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Schrage's classroom raised $195

This project is fully funded

My Students

What? I have to read and write AGAIN? That is what I face each day when it comes to reading and writing with my ESL students. They struggle with these subject, so they don't want to practice them. I need materials that I can use to engage them during class time to be better readers and writers.

My students are all at-risk struggling English as a Second Language learners.

They struggle because they are all English as a Second Language students, and they don't always understand the English language. My students are from China, Yemen, Russia, and Mexico. They really try hard when it comes to learning, but they have the language obstacle to overcome. My students face many obstacles during the school day, and anything I can do to improve their skills will benefit them a great deal. They want to learn, but they don't have the materials to practice reading and writing at home.

My Project

We are requesting novels in English and Spanish, to improve the reading skills of my students. You will be providing my students with high-interest novels so I can teach reading skills along with the English language. It is very important that these students learn to read so they can be successful in school. If they are able to read in English, their lives will become so much easier. The novels I have chosen are all novels that are at their level, and they are of interest to them. I am requesting novels that my students have shown interest in reading, and other novels that will inspire my students to love reading. This will give my students the opportunity to improve their reading comprehension, fluency, and understanding of the English language. We will be learning valuable skills with these novels.

We are trying everything we can to get these students learning English so they can survive at school and in America.

You will be helping us with our goals. You will be helping make life long English learners out of these eager students.

Mrs. Schrage Ulysses S Grant Middle 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.

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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

18 students impacted 2donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Catcher in the Rye Teacher Collection (2 bk set) • AKJ Education $15.70 1 $15.70
Salt to the Sea • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
Julius Caesar Teacher Collection (2 bk set) • AKJ Education $13.45 1 $13.45
Eli Remembers • AKJ Education $13.14 1 $13.14
The Red Pencil • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
The Gangster We Are All Looking For • AKJ Education $11.64 1 $11.64
My Mother's Secret A Novel Based on a True Holocaust Story • AKJ Education $10.95 1 $10.95
The Shawl • AKJ Education $9.45 1 $9.45
Now Is the Time for Running • AKJ Education $7.30 1 $7.30
Out of Nowhere • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
The Orange Houses • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Outcasts United The Story of a Refugee Soccer Team That Changed a Town • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story • AKJ Education $4.14 1 $4.14

Materials cost

$133.17

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.00

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$165.17

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$29.15

Total project goal

$194.32

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $194.32

1 Donor

-$97.16

Donations toward project cost

-$82.59

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$14.57

match offer

-$97.15

Match offer toward project cost

-$82.58

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$14.57

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 $0.00

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