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Mrs. Cannon from Philadelphia, PA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Expanding Access to Poetry Books

Help me give my students exposure to poetry and poets with books like A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams.

  • $506 goal

This project expired on August 8, 2025.

This project expired on August 8, 2025.

My Project

These books will help me to add another genre of books to my classroom library. My students currently only have a few poetry books to share. We are excited to increase our collection of books by including books about poets and different types of poetry.

Poetry helps students to explore language, emotion, and imagination.

We would like to include picture book poems, narrative poems, rhyming verse, free verse, haikus and limericks. These poetry books will increase students interests in reading a variety of topics and helping all students to be able to access materials on a variety of reading levels. We look forward to reading poems that are humorous, about nature, animals, and everyday experiences.

Poetry will also help us to learn about figurative language and poetic devices that may be used in our own writing!

Mrs. Cannon Robert B Pollock Elementary School Grades 3-5

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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

88 students impacted

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams (Incredible Lives for Young Readers (ILYR)) • Amazon Business $14.12 6 $84.72
Poems in the Attic • Amazon Business $21.29 1 $21.29
Keep a Pocket in Your Poem: Classic Poems and Playful Parodies • Amazon Business $18.00 1 $18.00
The Boy Who Loved Words • Amazon Business $17.09 1 $17.09
Hate That Cat: A Novel • Amazon Business $7.87 2 $15.74
Bravo!: Poems About Amazing Hispanics • Amazon Business $15.36 1 $15.36
Jump Back, Paul - Library Book • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
National Geographic Book of Animal Poetry: 200 Poems with Photographs That Squeak, Soar, and Roar! • Amazon Business $13.83 1 $13.83
Word After Word After Word - Hardcover Book • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Poems to Learn by Heart • Amazon Business $12.69 1 $12.69
Forget-Me-Nots: Poems to Learn by Heart • Amazon Business $12.39 1 $12.39
The Illustrated Robert Frost: 15 Winter Poems for Children - Robert Frost for Kids, Poetry Books for Kids, Poetry Picture Books, Robert Frost Kids ... Frost, Poetry for Young People Robert Frost • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Just Right Words: Slam Poetry (TIME FOR KIDS®: Informational Text) • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Spilling Ink: A Young Writer's Handbook • Amazon Business $10.91 1 $10.91
Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reverso Poems • Amazon Business $10.64 1 $10.64
Out of Wonder: Celebrating Poets and Poetry • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Something Sure Smells Around Here: Limericks (Poetry Adventures) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Underneath My Bed: List Poems (Poetry Adventures) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
I Saw an Invisible Lion Today: Quatrains (Poetry Adventures) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
If It Rains Pancakes: Haiku and Lantern Poems (Poetry Adventures) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Bow-Tie Pasta: Acrostic Poems (Poetry Adventures) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Feathers • Amazon Business $8.29 1 $8.29
Shape Me a Rhyme: Nature's Forms in Poetry • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
No Mirrors in My Nana's House: Musical CD and Book • Amazon Business $7.07 1 $7.07
Emma's Poem: The Voice of the Statue of Liberty • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Imagine • Amazon Business $6.39 1 $6.39
A Voice of Her Own: Candlewick Biographies: The Story of Phillis Wheatley, Slave Poet • Amazon Business $6.29 1 $6.29
The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary • Amazon Business $4.53 1 $4.53

Materials cost

$394.11

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Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.91

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$430.02

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$75.89

Total project goal

$505.91

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