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Ms. Keenan from Chicago, IL is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Reading Aloud Interactively!

My students need over 30 children's books to learn crucial reading skills such as genre and point of view.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Keenan's classroom raised $312

This project is fully funded

My Students

Through interactive read alouds students can be engaged with a book and learn different literary elements. By using a read aloud to teach a skill, all students are able to understand the new skill.

I am the lucky teacher of 28 second graders.

My students come from more than ten different countries and speak 14 different home languages! My school focuses on immigrant, refugee, and neighborhood students. Over 85% of our students receive free or reduced lunch. My students deserve high quality materials and experiences, which are often denied to them due to home and school budget issues. You can help give them the high quality educational experiences they deserve.

My Project

Each year I have students who range from reading two years below grade level to those who are reading far above. In addition to meeting with students one on one and in small groups, I provide instruction to the whole class. In order to make whole class instruction meaningful, I introduce features of literature to students through read alouds, using Linda Hoyt's "Interactive Read Aloud." The books I am requesting are the ones outlined in Hoyt's book. Through your generosity I can use these wonderful books to teach my students concepts such as predicting, finding the problem and solution, and flashback.

Read alouds are a wonderful part of any day in a classroom.

With your support, I can take my read alouds to the next level. These books will help provide high quality instruction to all of my students!

Ms. Keenan Ahs - Passages Charter School Grades PreK-2

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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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

Materials Cost Quantity Total
It Could Always Be Worse Pb: A Yiddish Folk Tale • AKJ Books $5.45 1 $5.45
Where the Wild Things Are • AKJ Books $6.98 1 $6.98
Tuesday • AKJ Books $6.23 1 $6.23
Crow Boy • AKJ Books $5.45 1 $5.45
Lon Po Po • AKJ Books $5.45 1 $5.45
Little Red Riding Hood • AKJ Books $14.00 1 $14.00
The Stray Dog • AKJ Books $5.45 1 $5.45
Biggest Bear • AKJ Books $5.42 1 $5.42
Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins • AKJ Books $7.01 1 $7.01
Make Way for Ducklings • AKJ Books $6.23 1 $6.23
Ghost Eye Tree • AKJ Books $6.20 1 $6.20
Hansel and Gretel • AKJ Books $7.01 1 $7.01
Man Who Walked Between the Towers • AKJ Books $5.45 1 $5.45
Goggles! • AKJ Books $5.45 1 $5.45
Cheyenne Again • AKJ Books $5.45 1 $5.45
Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic, Sung in the Year • AKJ Books $4.67 1 $4.67
Snowflake Bentley • AKJ Books $6.23 1 $6.23
Owl Moon • AKJ Books $13.25 1 $13.25
Mufaro''s Beautiful Daughters • AKJ Books $14.03 1 $14.03
The Ugly Duckling • AKJ Books $5.46 1 $5.46
Puss in Boots Charles Perrault, Fred Marcellino (Illustrator • AKJ Books $6.23 1 $6.23
Some Smug Slug • AKJ Books $5.45 1 $5.45
Little Bear''s Visit • AKJ Books $3.08 1 $3.08
Seven Blind Mice • AKJ Books $6.23 1 $6.23
Sleeping Ugly • AKJ Books $5.45 1 $5.45
When I Was Young in the Mountains • AKJ Books $5.45 1 $5.45
The Frog Prince, Continued • AKJ Books $5.45 1 $5.45
Martins Big Words • AKJ Books $6.23 1 $6.23
Dogteam • AKJ Books $5.45 2 $10.90
Rumpelstiltskin • AKJ Books $14.03 1 $14.03
Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions • AKJ Books $5.45 1 $5.45
The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs • AKJ Books $6.23 1 $6.23
Yo! Yes? • AKJ Books $5.45 1 $5.45

Materials cost

$226.50

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.40

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$264.90

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$46.75

Total project goal

$311.65

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$311.65

5 Donors

-$311.65

Donations toward project cost

-$264.90

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$46.75

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$0.00

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