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Ms. Reagin from Chicago, IL is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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It Is Reading Time

Help me give my students books that will create a love for reading.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Reagin's classroom raised $721

This project is fully funded

My Project

Our special education classroom was gifted reading leveled readers. When our new books arrived the students were so excited. They picked book after book to read and as they grew in confidence and ability they started picking their favorites. I started to notice that some of the level readers started to go missing. I had books set aside that students could take home and keep, but told them the leveled readers in the special boxes should stay in the room.

We used them for classic reading, writing projects, making up expanded stories, and even created math word problems related to the stories from the books.

The students loved the books they and they would read them time after time. They read them in pairs, to the class, and even asked to read them to other classes.

The students truly loved the leveled readers and became even more excited as they advanced in their reading levels. The problem I faced was when I went to pack them up at the end of the year some of the books were missing. Please help by giving our classroom books to add to our collection. I am so excited to see what books they will pick as their favorites this year.

Ms. Reagin Laura Ward Elementary School Grades PreK-2

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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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

11 students impacted 2donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Guided Reading Collection: Level A Fiction and Nonfiction Combo (40 books) • AKJ Education $200.41 1 $200.41
Guided Reading Collection: Level B Fiction and Nonfiction Combo (40 books) • AKJ Education $198.89 1 $198.89
Guided Reading Collection: Level C Fiction and Nonfiction Combo (40 books) • AKJ Education $174.40 1 $174.40

Materials cost

$573.70

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$8.61

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$612.31

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$108.05

Total project goal

$720.36

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$720.36

1 Donor

-$360.17

Donations toward project cost

-$306.15

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$54.02

match offer

-$360.19

Match offer toward project cost

-$306.16

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$54.03

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$0.00

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