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Ms. Anna from San Francisco, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Just Right Books to Jump-Start Reading

Help me give my students a variety of engaging and accessible books and magazines that are just at their level!

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Anna's classroom raised $1,797

This project is fully funded

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

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

My first-grade students are excited to be returning to school to learn together this year. They love sharing about their families, their hobbies, and their hopes and dreams. They are silly and playful and anxious to connect with each other after our pandemic year.

First graders are full of enthusiasm for learning, curious about the world around them, and eager to share their observations and stories from their lives.

They love to explore favorite authors in reading, tell stories from their lives in writing, and learn new math and science concepts.

The majority of students in my class come from low-income backgrounds. School is a safe place for them to learn and grow together and to create a supportive community.

My Project

After a year of distance learning, my first grade students need so much practice handling and experiencing books! We sent many of our classroom books home last year and now we need to replenish the libraries of books that students can read independently at school and borrow to take home for reading homework. Several of my students did not receive any instruction last year in kindergarten, so it is an urgent need for them to have books at an emergent level so that they can start to read and feel successful.

Books are just right when beginning readers can recognize most of the words on a page and can read through the pages independently.

When children have not yet learned to see themselves as readers, they struggle to do this and ask for help or say, "I don't know how to read." When they experience the feeling of reading a "just right" book on their own successfully, they feel like readers! The more successful they feel, the more they want to read!

This project also includes a subscription to Scholastic Magazine which offers engaging and accessible content, and a selection of picture books written by Black authors where students will see their life experiences and joy reflected.

Ms. Anna Cesar Chavez 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

20 students impacted 11donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
FR150X - First Little Readers - Complete Library • Lakeshore Learning Materials $259.00 1 $259.00
EE667 - Lakeshore Word Family Readers • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 4 $199.96
TT933 - Lakeshore Emergent Readers • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 4 $199.96
EE210X - Guided Reading Leveled Book Sets - Complete Library • Lakeshore Learning Materials $199.00 1 $199.00
FB711 - Eyewitness Nonfiction Readers - Level 1 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.50 4 $198.00
Scholastic News®, Grade 1 (min. 20 subscriptions per order) (Digital + Print) • Scholastic Magazines and Book Clubs $5.95 20 $119.00
I Am Enough • MahoganyBooks $17.10 1 $17.10
The Day You Begin • MahoganyBooks $17.10 1 $17.10
Change Sings • MahoganyBooks $17.09 1 $17.09
I Am Every Good Thing • MahoganyBooks $16.19 1 $16.19
Bunheads • MahoganyBooks $16.19 1 $16.19
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Picture Book Edition • MahoganyBooks $16.19 1 $16.19
Parker Looks Up: An Extraordinary Moment • MahoganyBooks $16.19 1 $16.19
M Is for Melanin A Celebration of the Black Child • MahoganyBooks $16.19 1 $16.19
Hair Love • MahoganyBooks $16.19 1 $16.19
Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters • MahoganyBooks $16.19 1 $16.19

Materials cost

$1,339.54

Vendor shipping charges

 $14.99

Sales tax

 $122.57

3rd party payment processing fee

$20.09

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,527.19

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$269.50

Total project goal

$1,796.69

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,796.69

10 Donors

-$1,589.77

Donations toward project cost

-$1,392.89

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$196.88

match offer

-$158.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$134.30

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$23.70

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$48.92

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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