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

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Falling In Love With A Great Book

My students need reading material in their native language.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Montoya's classroom raised $424

This project is fully funded

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

Do you remember opening the book that made you fall in love with reading? I want my students to fall in love with reading and fall in love with learning.

All my students are English Language Leaners with varying levels of English proficiency.

My students are eager to learn, but have very few literature resources in their native language. My students are eager readers and are ready to add some new and more popular titles to our literature circles and our classroom library.

My Project

My students are eager readers with limited reading materials in their native language. We are going to add newer titles to our classroom library for independent reading. We would be thrilled to have a set of Dictionaries in Spanish to help us with unfamiliar words we come across while reading our new books. We will also use our new books for literature circle and book talks. My students will be learning to make predictions, to summarize, to make connections, make inferences, to analyze characters and their actions, and much much more with these books.

The donation of these books will improve my classroom immensely.

My students will have access to text that they can understand and resources that they can use to build their comprehension skills.

Mrs. Montoya James Shields Middle School Grades 6-8

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This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Chicago, IL View local requests

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

54 students impacted 3donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Caramelo: En Espanol (Spanish Edition) • Amazon $13.13 5 $65.65
Diccionario Esencial de la Lengua Espanola (Spanish Edition) • Amazon $6.18 10 $61.80
Bajo la misma estrella (The Fault in Our Stars) (Spanish Edition) • Amazon $8.19 5 $40.95
The ESL / ELL Teacher's Survival Guide: Ready-to-Use Strategies, Tools, and Activities for Teaching English Language Learners of All Levels • Amazon $21.65 1 $21.65
Sinsajo / Mockingjay (Hunger Games) (Spanish Edition) • Amazon $16.07 1 $16.07
Los Juegos del Hambre = The Hunger Games (Spanish Edition) • Amazon $15.91 1 $15.91
En llamas / Catching Fire (Hunger Games) (Spanish Edition) • Amazon $15.32 1 $15.32
Las Cronicas de Narnia (Chronicles of Narnia (HarperCollins Spanish)) (Spanish Edition) • Amazon $15.13 1 $15.13
Caramelo • Amazon $13.01 1 $13.01
Allegiant (Divergent Series) • Amazon $13.00 1 $13.00
Four: A Divergent Collection (Divergent Series) • Amazon $10.56 1 $10.56
Spanish Stories / Cuentos Españoles (A Dual-Language Book) (English and Spanish Edition) • Amazon $10.10 1 $10.10
Insurgent (Divergent) • Amazon $9.83 1 $9.83
First Spanish Reader: A Beginner's Dual-Language Book (Beginners' Guides) (English and Spanish Edition) • Amazon $8.23 1 $8.23
Introduction to Spanish Poetry: A Dual-Language Book (Dover Dual Language Spanish) • Amazon $7.52 1 $7.52

Materials cost

$324.73

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.87

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$359.60

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$63.46

Total project goal

$423.06

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$423.06

2 Donors

-$418.65

Donations toward project cost

-$359.60

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$59.05

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$4.41

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$0.00

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