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Mrs. McCormack from Tacoma, WA is requesting professional development through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Professional development

Improving Literacy Instruction

Teacher Professional Development: I need close reading and writing workshop resources like Units of Study to help improve my practice as the Common Core is fully implemented in my school.<profdevpilot>

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. McCormack's classroom raised $819

This project is fully funded

My Students

I have 27 students in my third grade class. Our school is located in a large urban school district in the state of Washington. My students are enthusiastic learners from diverse backgrounds. Our classroom community creates a supportive and encouraging place for my students to learn.

I teach at a high poverty school in an urban school district in the state of Washington.

This is my 16th year as a classroom teacher and my career thus far has been spent at this school. I have primarily taught third grade, but have spent one year each in second and fourth. My school has fully adopted the Common Core State Standards this year and the transition has not been an easy one as the level of rigor has increased substantially. The materials I am requesting will help increase my familiarity with the Common Core State Standards in reading and writing and provide me with effective ideas for increasing the rigor in my classroom. Increased rigor will help me better prepare my students to meet the standards as they move forward to fourth grade and beyond. These resources will also help me build a tool box of my own filled with strategies needed to meet the rigorous demands of the current standards.

My Project

I am requesting Units of Study to help me better teach opinion, narrative, and informational writing to my students. This complete curriculum will give me the tools I need to provide effective writing instruction to my students. The PD pack will support my use of conferring with students to help guide them in improving their writing skills. The Chart Sense books will help me create anchor charts with my students that they can use to help them remember and apply the skills they learn during reading and writing instruction. The books on close reading will help me create lessons that help my students dig deeper into texts.

My students will benefit greatly from this project.

Units of Study will provide them with a writing workshop that meets their needs in narrative, information, and opinion writing. They will help create anchor charts to refer back to when reading or writing. These charts will provide them with strategies that they can use to be more successful readers and writers.

Mrs. McCormack Mann Elementary School Grades 3-5

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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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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Units of Study in Opinion, Information, and Narrative Writing, Grade 3 with Trade Book Pack • Heinemann $195.00 1 $195.00
Units of Study PD Pack • Heinemann $102.00 1 $102.00
Lessons and Units for Closer Reading: Ready-to-Go Resources and Planning Tools Galore • Amazon $35.10 1 $35.10
Text-Dependent Questions, Grades K-5: Pathways to Close and Critical Reading (Corwin Literacy) • Amazon $33.18 1 $33.18
The Informational Writing Toolkit: Using Mentor Texts in Grades 3-5 • Amazon $32.43 1 $32.43
Rigorous Reading: 5 Access Points for Comprehending Complex Texts (Corwin Literacy) • Amazon $27.74 1 $27.74
Explaining Reading, Third Edition: A Resource for Explicit Teaching of the Common Core Standards • Amazon $26.02 1 $26.02
Closer Reading, Grades 3-6: Better Prep, Smarter Lessons, Deeper Comprehension (Corwin Literacy) • Amazon $25.06 1 $25.06
Chart Sense for Writing: Over 70 Common Sense Charts with Tips and Strategies to Teach 3-8 Writing • Amazon $24.26 1 $24.26
Chart Sense: Common Sense Charts to Teach 3-8 Informational Text and Literature • Amazon $22.46 1 $22.46
Genre Connections: Lessons to Launch Literary and Nonfiction Texts • Amazon $20.79 1 $20.79
Common Core Practice Writing to Texts Grade 3 • Amazon $18.72 1 $18.72
Text-Marking Lessons for Active Nonfiction Reading (Grades 2-3): Reproducible Nonfiction Passages With Lessons That Guide Students to Read ... Text Structures, and Activate Comprehension • Amazon $14.23 1 $14.23

Materials cost

$576.99

Vendor shipping charges

 $29.70

Sales tax

 $50.49

3rd party payment processing fee

$8.65

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$695.83

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$122.79

Total project goal

$818.62

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $818.62

1 Donor

-$49.00

Donations toward project cost

-$41.65

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$7.35

Matching donations from our partners

-$769.62

Match offers toward project cost

-$654.18

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$115.44

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