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Ms. Ellberg from Berkeley CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Ravenous Readers Need Classroom Library Books

My students need new classroom library books about important women in history.

  • $232 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

My students are a diverse group of fourth graders who attend an urban, public elementary school in Northern California. My students come from a variety of socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds and speak a variety of languages. They come to school with a broad range of learning experiences.

My students are eager to learn and do their best.

They want to be in school because they want to learn all they can to be successful one day. My students walk into our classroom every day full of life, ready to learn, and excited for what is in store for them that day!

My Project

Donations to this project will not only enhance our classroom library, but help students with their literacy skills such as fluency and comprehension. I am asking for multiple copies of some titles in order to read with groups of students in literature circles.

Your help will allow my students to experience literature at their level.

This is exactly what they need (along with instruction) for them to become better readers. By giving our class books (multiple copies of the same titles for buddy reading) you will help me help them to learn to read and enhance their love of reading!

This will have lasting impacts on the life of my students by cultivating their already existing love of reading and hopefully create life-long independent readers.

Ms. Ellberg
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Lillian's Right to Vote: A Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 • Amazon Business $14.88 1 $14.88
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement (Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor (Awards)) • Amazon Business $14.39 1 $14.39
Susan B. Anthony • Amazon Business $13.78 1 $13.78
Around America to Win the Vote: Two Suffragists, a Kitten, and 10,000 Miles • Amazon Business $13.59 1 $13.59
Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music • Amazon Business $12.71 1 $12.71
Hillary • Amazon Business $12.25 1 $12.25
Chasing Freedom: The Life Journeys of Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony, Inspired by Historical Facts • Amazon Business $11.37 1 $11.37
I Could Do That!: Esther Morris Gets Women the Vote (Melanie Kroupa Books) • Amazon Business $10.98 1 $10.98
Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909 • Amazon Business $9.98 1 $9.98
Hillary Rodham Clinton: Dreams Taking Flight • Amazon Business $9.89 1 $9.89
Hillary Rodham Clinton: Some Girls Are Born to Lead • Amazon Business $8.96 1 $8.96
Wangari Maathai: The Woman Who Planted Millions of Trees • Amazon Business $6.90 1 $6.90
Coretta Scott • Amazon Business $6.08 1 $6.08
Elizabeth Leads the Way: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Right to Vote • Amazon Business $5.21 1 $5.21

Materials cost

$150.97

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$13.81

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.26

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$197.04

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$34.77

Total project goal

$231.81

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$231.81

4 Donors

-$218.44

Donations toward project cost

-$186.42

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$32.02

match offer

-$12.50

Match offer toward project cost

-$10.62

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$1.88

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.88

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

$0.00

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