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Mrs. Fortino from Lansing, MI is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Little Listeners Learn To Read!

My students need a variety of read along books including Where the Wild Things Are, Skippyjon Jones, Chrysanthemum and more for our school listening center library.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Fortino's classroom raised $385

This project is fully funded

My Students

"Mrs. F, I can't hear anything, it's not working!" "We already heard this one." These are the words I hear from my kindergarten students everyday. Our listening center library is getting old, the tapes are drying out and snapping. We don't have many titles left and the kids are getting bored.

Many of my students have not been exposed to high quality children's literature, had opportunities to be read to or learned how to handle books appropriately.

It is amazing how my active little ones calm right down and enjoy listening to a good book. My high energy students all settle down and get pulled into the story. They need access to many books so they can hear the sequence of a good story, be exposed to new vocabulary, practice handling books carefully, opening the book from the proper direction and turning pages efficiently. Our school listening center library is aging. Many books are missing pages, the tapes are breaking and we simply don't have enough titles for children to select from each day.

My Project

During our Daily 5 literacy stations, students enjoy participating in a variety of activities. While they are engaged in their stations, I work with small groups of students on specific reading and writing skills. Students look forward to their time at the listening center station but are often frustrated when the tape doesn't work or pages fall out of their book. They get bored listening to the same books over and over and over! This causes many disruptions and students often interrupt our small group instruction time because of problems at the listening center. Having working CD's and some new titles will be so exciting for them! Keeping their interest at the station will allow me to work with small groups of students, uninterrupted. This instruction time is vital to their development as readers and writers!

Kindergarten is a magical time!

Fostering a love of reading from a young age will have a lasting impact on my students' academic lives. My students deserve to be exposed to high quality children's literature. Your donation will allow them to enjoy and learn from variety of books that they would otherwise not get to experience. Thank you for your gift!

Mrs. Fortino Forest View 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

100 students impacted 64donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
RE780X - Kevin Henkes Read-Alongs • Lakeshore Learning Materials $159.00 1 $159.00
RE191 - Sheila Rae, the Brave Read-Along • Lakeshore Learning Materials $40.50 1 $40.50
Where the Wild Things Are • AKJ Books $6.56 4 $26.24
Skippyjon Jones in Doghouse • AKJ Books $5.10 4 $20.40
Martha Speaks • AKJ Books $5.10 4 $20.40
CD-Where the Wild Things Are (Audio) • AKJ Books $10.91 1 $10.91
Martha Speaks • AKJ Books $8.02 1 $8.02
Skippjon Jones in the Dog House • AKJ Books $7.29 1 $7.29

Materials cost

$292.76

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.39

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$327.15

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$57.73

Total project goal

$384.88

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $384.88

56 Donors

-$372.18

Donations toward project cost

-$322.05

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$50.13

match offer

-$6.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$5.10

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$0.90

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$6.70

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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