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Mrs. Smith from Ruffs Dale PA is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Going Loon for TOONS

Help me give my students the Prize-Winning TOON Book Collection for every student!

  • $528 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

Our school is located in high poverty, rural community. My students love hands-on activities. They are very energetic and need to get up and get moving on a daily basis. As a teacher in a low-income district, I try to provide the best experiences for my students in the classroom as well as out of the classroom.

Many of our children live in single-parent households and receive a free or reduced-price lunch.

My students are young learners, so I try and make our classroom as warm and welcoming as possible and also provide​ a very rigorous learning environment for them. I want each and every one of them to have the best educational advantage a young learner can possibly have.

My Project

The TOON books will be a great addition to our classroom because these books will help to improve comprehension. Comic books help children understand concepts better because context can be visualized. A wall of words doesn't provide the same kind of luxury as comic books. Another reason why comic books are good for learning is that it increases vocabulary from just your basic basil reader. The comic books have action stories that the children enjoy reading.

With the intense visuals and how they focus on plot and character, comic books can be much more engaging than other literacy media, such as novels or short stories.

Comic books may also help children develop the reading skills required to comprehend texts with higher levels of difficulties.

Mrs. Smith
Grades PreK-2

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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

Materials cost

$412.09

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.18

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$448.27

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$79.11

Total project goal

$527.38

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $527.38

2 Donors

-$264.00

Donations toward project cost

-$224.40

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$39.60

match offer

-$263.38

Match offer toward project cost

-$223.87

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$39.51

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 $0.00

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