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Mrs. Mecham from Price, UT is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Read It! Talk About It! Share It!

Help me give my students a variety of high-interest books so they can participate in Book Clubs.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Mecham's classroom raised $962

This project is fully funded

My Students

I have 106 ninth grade students, half of whom "hate to read," and many will tell you that they don't even like to hold a book! One big reason for students not liking books is that they are required to read text digitally. Reading text digitally has created a negative consequence for students' ability to slow down to comprehend what they are reading. The scrolling and the skimming has resulted in shallow reading. To change this "learned" predisposition, I KNOW I have to get the very best books into my students' hands and provide them time IN CLASS to read and be able to talk about them - Book Clubs! (Old idea...I know.)

Another common reason for students "hating to read" is because they continually choose books at the wrong reading level; they don’t want to be seen holding book that nobody else is reading.

My Project

My plan has been to provide my students with independent reading time at the beginning of class for the first twenty minutes everyday, Monday - Thursday, and allowing my students to meet with their Book Clubs on Friday. They LOVE Fridays to meet and talk about their books! I have even connected my classes. For example, my students reading a book in Period 1 share the same Google Doc with students reading the same book in Period 5. Each week, I place interesting discussion questions in each of their book clubs' shared Google Docs with a video clip (e.g. A video clip of rafters navigating Westwater from Will Hobb's novel Down River or a National Geographic video of Antarctica for the novel Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World by Jennifer Armstrong). Each week, my students look forward to reading the answers to the same questions that the other book clubs answered as well as their reflections on the video.

Most importantly, my students are in desperate need of a wider variety of high-interest books; our library can provide one or two books of the same title but never four or five.

Research shows that students need a total of ninety minutes per day of reading (across all classes) to improve their reading. Unfortunately, most teachers struggle with how to incorporate and organize independent student reading into their classes - I have figure it out! But, the hardest part is providing the variety of books. Thank you in advance for helping me make our classroom better. Thank you.

Mrs. Mecham Carbon High School Grades 9-12

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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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

106 students impacted 1donor

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Allies • Amazon Business $12.78 5 $63.90
Cloudbuster Nine: The Untold Story of Ted Williams and the Baseball Team That Helped Win World War II • Amazon Business $14.59 4 $58.36
Shoot Your Shot: A Sport-Inspired Guide To Living Your Best Life • Amazon Business $13.99 4 $55.96
SHOUT • Amazon Business $10.99 5 $54.95
The Pitcher • Amazon Business $12.19 4 $48.76
Refugee • Amazon Business $9.74 5 $48.70
Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel • Amazon Business $9.49 5 $47.45
Trust the Grind: How World-Class Athletes Got To The Top (Motivational Book for Teens, Gift for Teen Boys, Teen and Young Adult Football, Fitness and Exercise) • Amazon Business $14.99 3 $44.97
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry • Amazon Business $8.99 5 $44.95
A Monster Calls: Inspired by an idea from Siobhan Dowd • Amazon Business $8.49 5 $42.45
Starfish • Amazon Business $13.99 3 $41.97
Firekeeper's Daughter • Amazon Business $10.23 4 $40.92
The Hate U Give • Amazon Business $8.12 5 $40.60
Boy21 • Amazon Business $7.59 5 $37.95
Their Eyes Were Watching God • Amazon Business $7.30 5 $36.50
Dear Martin • Amazon Business $6.98 5 $34.90
Maybe He Just Likes You • Amazon Business $7.99 4 $31.96

Materials cost

$775.25

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.63

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$816.88

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$144.16

Total project goal

$961.04

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $961.04

1 Donor

-$961.04

Donations toward project cost

-$816.88

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$144.16

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