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Ms. Alexander from Chicago, IL is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Fine Toon Our Reading Skills: Comics for Struggling Readers!

Help me give my students books that contain car"toon" characters with humorous storylines to pique their interest in reading as well as enhance their literacy skills.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Alexander's classroom raised $598

This project is fully funded

My Students

Albert Einstein quotes, "The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size." Therefore, my goal is to provide my diverse learners with meaningful projects and instructional resources to address the disabilities that impede their learning such as attention-deficit, dyslexia, social-emotional, and autism. Their past experiences of failure in school have outweighed their successes as they also deal with socioeconomic ills within their communities, making the burden to learn more difficult.

Nevertheless, in spite of their circumstances, my students are inquisitive, creative, hopeful and eager to come to school- their safe haven; therefore, they know that their teacher holds their minds dear to her heart and will continue to discover innovative ways to challenge them to think and learn!

Aligning each student to the appropriate instructional resources, my students can grasp concepts through a combination of visual stimuli and usage of hands-on materials as well as respond to intervention through interactive, arts-infused, project-based, hands-on learning activities. With time and investment in exploring how they learn, my students will leave my classroom with a newfound growth mindset!

My Project

My students are diverse learners who struggle with foundational reading skills. They enjoy words with vivid images and characters that provide humor.

"Toon" books were selected to target the reading deficits of my students (reluctant readers) as well as address their learning needs while actively engaging them in the reading process!

What I love most is that car"toon" books combines comics with a rigorous curriculum that supports students' language arts skills in reading, listening, speaking and fluency. For my students who are visual learners, they will be able to read images to comprehend the essence of the story while learning to grasp knowledge of phonics and sight words.

This collection also emphasizes the development of students’ verbal and visual literacy skills through a series of comics that will be used to read to whole class & teach language development through small group instruction.

As a bonus, the Prize-Winning TOON Books Collection for Grades K-2 comes with a Guide to Comics for Every Student! Included in this project are titles, that will peak the interest of my students:

Zig and Wikki in Something Ate My Homework, Silly Lilly in What Will I Be Today?, Hearts, Ape & Armadillo Take Over The World, Written and Drawn by Henrietta, A Day In The Office Of Doctor and Adopt a Glurp.

Research has shown that the lack of exposure & resources are among the disparities of the achievement gap, especially among students with academic deficits. The goal is for my to walk away towards the pipeline of academic success and enhanced confidence in their reading skills. Thank you for your generosity and kindness.

Ms. Alexander Hoyne Fine Arts and Performing Arts Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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 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

More than three‑quarters of 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

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Prize-Winning TOON Books Collection for Grades K-2 plus Guide to Comics for Every Student! • AKJ Education $412.09 1 $412.09
Silly Lilly in What Will I Be Today? • AKJ Education $11.66 1 $11.66
Written and Drawn by Henrietta (TOON Level 3) • AKJ Education $9.45 1 $9.45
Hearts (TOON Level 1) • AKJ Education $9.45 1 $9.45
Ape & Armadillo Take Over The World (TOON Level 3) • AKJ Education $9.45 1 $9.45
3x4 • AKJ Education $9.45 1 $9.45
Zig and Wikki in Something Ate My Homework TOON Level 3 • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Adopt a Glurb • AKJ Education $2.00 1 $2.00
A Day In The Office Of Doctor Bugspit (Balloon Toons) • AKJ Education $2.00 1 $2.00

Materials cost

$470.65

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.06

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$507.71

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$89.60

Total project goal

$597.31

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $597.31

1 Donor

-$597.31

Donations toward project cost

-$507.71

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$89.60

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