Help me give my students exciting and fun prizes that motivate them to read!
FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Adams's classroom raised $458
This project is fully funded
My Students
I teach 9th grade English at a public high school in Hawaii. I work with a diverse group of students who each have their own unique voices and experiences. I feel extremely lucky to do what I get to do as an indigenous educator.
The importance of community, family, place, and people is ingrained into my students' being.
They are strong, proud, and diversely talented--even if they don't believe that about themselves sometimes. Teaching in a place like Hawaii, love flows freely and I see in my students an undeniable admiration in each other. They are team-oriented and that is often how they learn best, too.
Though many of my students read and write below grade level, they are literate in the land, in the culture, and in the life of this place. I pull on those strengths of theirs as much as I can.
My Project
The 10,000 minute challenge is my effort to ignite a love of reading in my students. Many of my students detest reading and as an avid reader (and an English teacher!) it breaks my heart when I think of all the amazing stories they are missing out on simply because they think they don't like to read.
My goal is to make reading fun again--that means no grades, no penalties, just reading, and some fun prizes too.
These materials will serve as incentives for students to honorably and accurately log the minutes that they read. Every week I do a Reading Recognition in my classes and students get candy and other fun things depending on what milestones in their reading journey they have hit. I want to be able to give my students immediate, positive reinforcement for choosing to pick up a book and just read.
My students will receive these prizes for accomplishing goals along the way to reading 10,000 minutes. This challenge is taking course over the entirety of the school year, so I need lots of incentives at the ready to motivate them to keep reading! My goal for my students is to feel excited by reading. By reading more, this will increase students' comfortability with reading and therefore increase the difficulty of texts that they are able to comprehend and think on.
More than half 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
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Vendor shipping charges
$9.35
Sales tax
$14.52
3rd party payment processing fee
$4.95
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$388.78
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$68.61
Total project goal
$457.39
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal
$457.39
2 Donors
-$448.56
Donations toward project cost
-$388.78
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