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Mrs. Boitano from Richmond, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Help Bring More Reading Into The Classroom!

My students need a variety of non fiction and fiction books to choose from to motivate their love of reading.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Boitano's classroom raised $432

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

A typical day in fifth grade begins with a mindful sit and a quick write in our journals about gratitude. Many of my students experience trauma in their homes so the biggest challenge is addressing all their needs. I want them to have the opportunity to enjoy reading by having a wide range of books.

Many of our students experience trauma at home.

However, my students come to school with an enthusiasm for learning. The teachers at my school are devoted to addressing student needs. We are trained in curriculum to help support our second language learners to succeed. My students are exceptional in their ability to overcome. They have made great progress in their reading, and many of those students who had come to me and sworn off reading are now the ones secretly reading under their desk when they are not supposed to. Many of them are motivated readers but lack a choice in what they read, as many of them do not have books at home and as a class we only visit the library once a week. In fifth grade it is crucial to encourage students love of reading so that they may succeed.

My Project

With the resources of a multitude of books, my classroom will be a more welcoming, comfortable, and safe environment for my avid readers. They will now get the opportunity to know what it means to be enthralled inside a great book and let their imaginations run wild with a book of their choice. For the years to come my future students will enjoy the different books by reading independently, using them during guided reading, and using them through read aloud. They will learn stamina, inferences, listening, reading, and writing skills by allowing them to choose which book to learn from. A typical fifth-grade classroom has 33 students and needs to have these resources in order to be functional for the high number of readers we serve in one room. The number of books at all different levels will help me pull students into small group instruction by giving us resources to do this.

Mrs. Boitano Grant Elementary School Grades 3-5

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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.

Richmond, CA 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

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Is There Life in Outer Space? • AKJ Education $4.37 8 $34.96
Magic Tree House #24: Earthquake in the Early Morning • AKJ Education $3.64 7 $25.48
Jackie Robinson and the Story of All Black Baseball • AKJ Education $2.91 8 $23.28
The Drinking Gourd A Story of the Underground Railroad • AKJ Education $2.91 8 $23.28
Frindle • AKJ Education $5.83 3 $17.49
Journey to the Centre of the Earth • AKJ Education $4.37 4 $17.48
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory • AKJ Education $5.69 3 $17.07
Ramona the Pest (Spanish) • AKJ Education $5.10 3 $15.30
Esperanza Rising • AKJ Education $4.39 3 $13.17
Maniac Magee • AKJ Education $4.10 3 $12.30
Island of the Blue Dolphins • AKJ Education $5.83 2 $11.66
The Giving Tree • AKJ Education $10.38 1 $10.38
Little House on the Prairie • AKJ Education $5.10 2 $10.20
Tuck Everlasting • AKJ Education $5.10 2 $10.20
The Borrowers • AKJ Education $5.10 2 $10.20
Chasing Lincoln's Killer • AKJ Education $9.30 1 $9.30
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson • AKJ Education $3.90 2 $7.80
The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Charlotte's Web • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Days Like This A Collection of Small Poems • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Old Yeller • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
American Tall Tales • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
La Pequena Locomotora Que Si Pudo (Spanish) • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
The Secret Garden • AKJ Education $2.91 1 $2.91

Materials cost

$304.52

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $27.86

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.57

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$366.95

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$64.76

Total project goal

$431.71

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $431.71

7 Donors

-$370.35

Donations toward project cost

-$321.60

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$48.75

match offer

-$53.35

Match offer toward project cost

-$45.35

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$8.00

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$8.00

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 $0.00

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