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Ms. Smith from Cambridge, MA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Reader's Workshop Classroom Library

My students need a diverse set of books to read from during Reader's Workshop as each works toward his or her goal of finishing 40 books during this school year.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Smith's classroom raised $988

This project is fully funded

My Students

When a book feels like TV it's a good book. My students are just discovering that reading can be this engaging. Through Readers' Workshop, each of the struggling readers in my class will read up to 40 books this year, but they need a diverse library in order to accomplish this goal.

My students come from low socioeconomic backgrounds, with substantial reading deficits, from all over Boston, in order to get a free education from our school.

We are a charter school that provides structure and fundamental academic preparation in order to get students to college. More specific to the students I work with daily, each comes with reading deficits of three to four grade levels. They bring joy and energy to class, but also histories of repeated academic failures. They struggle with reading and this affects every aspect of their life.

My Project

Current reading research clearly shows that students who are behind need to read a lot (increase their volume of reading), and have texts that are at their level. Additionally, student choice needs to factor into this equation. The course that I am currently teaching seeks to hit these aims. Students are reading quite a bit of diverse texts and getting individualized instruction in reading. And yet, our puny library is not supporting their new found joy in reading. Your donation will buy books for my students such as Black and White, How They Croaked and Eragon. This will give them texts to choose from, as they accelerate their reading growth.

My students need to become better readers.

My class is designed, based on research, in order to do this. I need your help to get leveled, diverse texts that each of my kids needs into my classroom.

Ms. Smith Community Charter School - Cambridge Grades 6-8

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

Equity Focus

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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More than three‑quarters 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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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Okay for Now • AKJ Books $12.40 1 $12.40
5,000 Miles to Freedom: Ellen and William Craft&apos • AKJ Books $14.56 1 $14.56
If Stones Could Speak: Unlocking the Secrets of Stonehenge M • AKJ Books $13.10 1 $13.10
The Hive Detectives: Chronicle of a Honey Bee Catastrophe Lo • AKJ Books $13.86 1 $13.86
The Elephant Scientist • AKJ Books $13.13 1 $13.13
Black and White • AKJ Books $15.26 1 $15.26
How They Croaked • AKJ Books $7.29 1 $7.29
Team Moon • AKJ Books $14.56 1 $14.56
The Mighty Miss Malone • AKJ Books $11.67 1 $11.67
Black Potatoes • AKJ Books $7.26 1 $7.26
They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American • AKJ Books $13.87 1 $13.87
Med Head • AKJ Books $6.56 1 $6.56
Wheels of Change • AKJ Books $13.83 1 $13.83
Before Columbus: The Americas of 1491 Charles C. Mann • AKJ Books $18.24 1 $18.24
Watership Down • AKJ Books $12.41 1 $12.41
Code Talker • AKJ Books $5.83 1 $5.83
The Great Fire • AKJ Books $16.78 1 $16.78
Facing the Lion: Growing up Maasai on the African Savanna • AKJ Books $5.07 1 $5.07
Antarctica • AKJ Books $13.83 1 $13.83
North Pole, South Pole • AKJ Books $14.36 1 $14.36
Percy Jackson PBK 5-book boxed set • AKJ Books $25.55 1 $25.55
Tales of the Greek Heroes Roger Lancelyn Green, Foreword by • AKJ Books $3.64 12 $43.68
The Maze of Bones (39 Clues Series #1) Rick Riordan • AKJ Books $9.48 1 $9.48
The Lost Hero • AKJ Books $7.29 1 $7.29
The Mark of Athena • AKJ Books $14.79 1 $14.79
The Red Pyramid • AKJ Books $7.29 1 $7.29
Eragon (trade) • AKJ Books $8.02 1 $8.02
Brisingr • AKJ Books $10.94 1 $10.94
Eldest • AKJ Books $9.48 1 $9.48
6-8 Exemplar Informational Texts: History/Social Studies • AKJ Books $67.81 1 $67.81
6-8 Exemplar Informational Texts: Language Arts • AKJ Books $30.65 1 $30.65
6-8 Exemplar Informational Texts: Science, Mathematics and Technical Subjects • AKJ Books $66.25 1 $66.25
6-8 Exemplar Poetry • AKJ Books $54.26 1 $54.26
A Light in the Attic • AKJ Books $13.86 1 $13.86
Different Dances • AKJ Books $25.55 1 $25.55
Every Thing On It • AKJ Books $14.59 1 $14.59
Where the Sidewalk Ends • AKJ Books $13.86 1 $13.86
Americans'' Favorite Poems • AKJ Books $20.08 1 $20.08
How to Eat a Poem: A Smorgasbord of Tasty and Delicious Poem • AKJ Books $1.83 1 $1.83
Paint Me a Poem • AKJ Books $17.06 1 $17.06
Flight • AKJ Books $10.22 1 $10.22
The Odyssey • AKJ Books $10.94 1 $10.94
Level Y - Nonfiction • AKJ Books $70.32 1 $70.32

Materials cost

$797.67

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.97

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$839.64

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$148.17

Total project goal

$987.81

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $987.81

12 Donors

-$578.99

Donations toward project cost

-$499.64

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$79.35

match offer

-$400.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$340.00

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$60.00

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$8.82

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