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Mrs. Smead, Teacher-Librarian from Las Vegas, NV is requesting other through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Mrs. Smead, Teacher-Librarian's classroom raised $172

Highlight of the Day

Help me give my students highlighters in multiple colors to use as we work on Text Mapping, note taking, and citing text evidence.

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Mrs. Smead, Teacher-Librarian Ann Lynch Elementary School
Las Vegas, NV Grades 3-5

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My Students

My evolving school library serves an eager to learn and an inquisitive student population of almost 700 amazing students from PreK- 5th. We are a Title I school with a 100% free or reduced-cost breakfast and lunch population. Our transiency rate is roughly 39.1% which is significantly higher than the district average. Our ELL population is almost 50%. We have Primary and Intermediate Resource and three special education programs-primary autism class, intermediate LIF class, and intermediate STAR (Severe Emotional Challenges) classes. Embedded in all learning for our readers is that, above all else, our differences and diversity, who we are and how we learn, is to be celebrated and shared. Students are encouraged to follow their passions, to believe in themselves, to use their strengths, and to look out for each other.

Our library not only emphasizes print and digital skills, but also the 3 Cs of Library - Community, Collaboration, and Critical Thinking skills, which are needed for students to be successful wherever life takes them.

WISER is the guiding acronym in our library instruction. It stands for Wonder, Investigate, Synthesize, Express, and Reevaluate. This acronym guides all our work as these are skills needed to be lifelong learners.

My Project

Being able to take notes and cite evidence in the text are two critical skills that becoming life long habits. Highlighting helps students to be able to relocate information in a jiffy and use that information to summarize.

Teaching students to highlight for various reasons, and with different colors, adds an organization tool to their learning and, it is just fun!!

My students will be as bright one of these highlighters being able to have their own to use in class, as well as having colors to learn to color code. So often, it is much easier to take a skill like this, where they have used paper and pencil, in this case highlighter, and then transfer it to a digital highlighter when working with a device.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Nearly all students from low‑income households

400 students impacted 6 donors
Mrs. Smead, Teacher-Librarian Ann Lynch Elementary School Grades 3-5

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Las Vegas, NV 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

400 students impacted 6donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
BIC Brite Liner Highlighters, Chisel Tip, Yellow, 24/Pack (BL241-A-YEL) • Quill.com $11.69 4 $46.76
Sharpie Tank Style Fluorescent Highlighter, Yellow, 36/Pack (1920938) • Quill.com $26.09 1 $26.09
BIC Brite Liner Highlighters, Chisel Tip, Green, Dozen (65556/BL11GR) • Quill.com $5.99 2 $11.98
BIC Brite Liner Pen Style Highlighters, Chisel Tip, Pink, Dozen (BL11Pk) • Quill.com $5.49 2 $10.98
Avery Hi-Liter Desk Style Highlighters, Chisel Point, Fluorescent Purple Ink, 12/Pk (24060) • Quill.com $10.16 1 $10.16

Materials cost

$105.97

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $8.32

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.59

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$145.88

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$25.74

Total project goal

$171.62

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $171.62

3 Donors

-$85.00

Donations toward project cost

-$76.30

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$8.70

Matching donations from our partners

-$81.86

Match offers toward project cost

-$69.58

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$12.28

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$4.76

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 $0.00

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