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Mrs. Carlson from Baltimore, MD is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Loving Literature through Listening

My reluctant readers need personal CD players with batteries and six award-winning books on CD to entice them to learn to love reading.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Carlson's classroom raised $415

This project is fully funded

This middle school caters to a delightful group of urban students, most of whom qualify as high needs, many of whom cannot read yet at the appropriate grade level, and all of whom deserve outlets for their passions and creativity. About five hundred students in sixth through eighth grade attend, which means that there are hundreds of growing, forming minds in our halls and rooms every day. What an opportunity!

I have spent two years teaching seventh grade language arts at this school, and have seen students make huge progress in their reading abilities during that time. However, I am still floored at the beginning of every year to find that the majority of my students cannot yet read at the seventh grade level. Over the past two years, my students have started the year reading, on average, like fourth graders. Because they cannot comprehend grade-level-appropriate material that appeals to them, many of these students have simply given up on reading. They utilize independent reading time to stare blankly at a page, and detest all reading assignments. Some of the truancy at our school, I am convinced, is even due to the fact that many of these students struggle so hard to understand what they are reading in class that they have given up.

In talking with other successful teachers with similar students, I have become convinced that a Listening Center with engaging novels and corresponding CDs can serve as a huge incentive to students who otherwise would not begin reading or even come to class. Rewarding one or two reluctant readers who arrive in class on time and on a regular basis to listen to their book while reading it would be a great way to hook these students not only into a one-time experience, but into the world of reading success.

Now, with your help, we can provide students who do not like school and do not like reading with the motivation to get to language arts class and to read engaging and challenging books. Your generosity will make it possible for these students – many of whom simply believe reading is boring – to listen to, cherish and read their own book. You can help them see the joys of literacy.

Mrs. Carlson Northeast Middle School 49 Grades 6-8

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 will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Baltimore, MD 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

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Bud, Not Buddy Christopher Paul Curtis • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
The Graveyard Book Neil Gaiman, Dave Mckean (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $11.69 1 $11.69
A Single Shard Linda Sue Park • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
The View from Saturday E. L. Konigsburg • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
CD102 Personal CD Player • SchoolOutfitters.com $44.99 3 $134.97
DURACELL PROCELL AA BATTERIES - 24 PER BOX -- Duracell Procell Professional Alkaline "AA" Batteries • Quill $8.09 1 $8.09
The Graveyard Book Neil Gaiman, Read by Neil Gaiman • Barnes and Noble $23.96 1 $23.96
A Wrinkle in Time Read by Madeleine L'Engle • Barnes and Noble $15.96 1 $15.96
A Single Shard Linda Sue Park, Read by Graeme Malcolm • Barnes and Noble $13.49 1 $13.49
Bud, Not Buddy Christopher Paul Curtis, Read by James Avery • Barnes and Noble $17.95 1 $17.95
Feathers Jacqueline Woodson, Read by Sisi Aisha Johnson • Barnes and Noble $17.95 1 $17.95
The View from Saturday E. L. Konigsburg • Barnes and Noble $14.99 1 $14.99
Feathers Jacqueline Woodson • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29

Materials cost

$284.21

Vendor shipping charges

 $28.42

Sales tax

 $14.21

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.26

Fulfillment labor & materials

$9.00

Total project cost

$340.11

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$74.66

Total project goal

$414.77

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $414.77

7 Donors

-$370.89

Donations toward project cost

-$340.13

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$30.76

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$43.90

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

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