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Ms. Aldana from Los Angeles, CA is requesting other through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Guided Reading Is A Must

My students need a Classic Birch Mobile Book Organizer & a variety of sentence strips to have access to a well organized leveled library.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Aldana's classroom raised $550

This project is fully funded

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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 recall reading books that you just didn't understand? Perhaps they didn't make sense because they were too hard and at a frustration level?. It is very important that students know their independent reading level and have access to the right books so that reading won't become frustrated.

My students are residents of South Central Los Angeles.

They live in an impoverished side of town where gang violence and hardships are the norm. The majority of my students qualify for federally funded meal programs and spend countless hours in after school programs. They live with very little but strive to improve themselves through education. They always greet you with a smile and are eager to learn. They know at such an early age that a good education will give them the tools to succeed.

My Project

Please help my students by donating the Classic Birch Mobile Book Organizer and a variety of sentence strips so that we can have a classroom library that is well organized. Students will learn to be better readers if they practice reading books that are at their particular instructional level. If I can provide a classroom library where books are categorized by lexical levels I know my students will greatly improve their reading. In addition I am requesting a variety of sentence strips so can post predictions and questions regarding the books that they are reading in our classroom library.

All students deserve the right to the best public education regardless of their zip code.

Please help me build an amazing learning environment for my students, where they can learn and love to read. I know that wit the Classic Birch Mobile Book Organizer I can provide a library that will meet the reading needs of all my students. Together we can break the illiteracy and poverty cycle one classroom at a time.

Ms. Aldana Estrella Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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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.

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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

24 students impacted 19donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
NF9766 - Magnetic Write & Wipe Sentence Strips • Lakeshore Learning $29.95 1 $29.95
NF9767 - Mini Rainbow Sentence Strips • Lakeshore Learning $3.49 1 $3.49
WS157 - Write & Wipe Rainbow Sentence Strips • Lakeshore Learning $6.49 1 $6.49
WS158 - Write & Wipe White Sentence Strips • Lakeshore Learning $5.49 1 $5.49
NF9765 - Rainbow Sentence Strips • Lakeshore Learning $4.99 1 $4.99
NF9763 - White Sentence Strips • Lakeshore Learning $3.99 1 $3.99
JJ274 - Modern Manuscript - Gr. 1-3 • Lakeshore Learning $6.99 1 $6.99
JJ676 - Classic Birch Mobile Book Organizer • Lakeshore Learning $329.00 1 $329.00

Materials cost

$390.39

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$35.72

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.86

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$466.97

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$82.41

Total project goal

$549.38

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$549.38

15 Donors

-$274.69

Donations toward project cost

-$233.49

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$41.20

match offer

-$274.68

Match offer toward project cost

-$233.48

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$41.20

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$0.00

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