Reading Is Power. Reading Is Enjoyed Through Choice!
My students need new books that they can enjoy during independent reading time. Reading is power and these books will update my classroom library and allow students access to new books that they want!
The students who will be entering my sixth grade classroom are diverse and speak many different languages at home. Many of the students are classified as English as a Second Language learners and/or Special Education students. The school I teach at is classified as a Title I school, which means that, as a school community, many of the students come from low-income households. Students are welcomed into the classroom each and everyday and know the space will be a safe and comfortable environment for them to learn and participate.
My students are resilent and motivated learners who are always curious and asking questions about all topic areas.
They come into my classroom knowing that they will learn, be challenged, have immense opportunities to ask questions and participate with their peers as well as in whole class discussions.
My Project
A goal of mine has always been to get my students to fall in love with math and reading (and the other subjects too). However, in the past year, getting all of my students to really enjoy a book on their own has been a struggle. I have had book talks and classroom read alouds, but not all students were "eager" to independently read. I realized, while I was packing up my classroom and really looked through the library, that many of the books in my classroom weren't that appealing. They were what the kids would label as "old", "non-exciting book covers", and hard to connect with. The Big Nate series, Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, and Who Was series were always off the shelves, but the other non-fiction and fiction books just seemed to sit there and collect dust no matter how hard I tried to get kids to read them.
Reading integrates itself with every subject and the more one reads the better fluency, comprehension, and extended vocabulary they will get.
That is why this upcoming year it is a goal of mine to get students to be intrinsically excited to read. I want titles they can connect with and be overly excited to read and share with others. All of the books on the list have been either researched by me or given to me by the librarian or other teachers. In addition to the books, I have included a scanner so that these donated books can be marked into a system and checked out just like a library so I can keep track of the books for years to come. Lastly, the Number Talks book is for my own professional library as Number Talks is a great routine to get kids to mentally compute numbers.
Number Talks: Whole Number Computation, Grades K-5
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$65.96
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$65.96
WoneNice 2.4GHz Wireless Barcode Scanner, Portable 2.4GHz Wireless & USB2.0 Wired Barcode Reader with USB Receiver Cable for Supermarket Library Express Company Retail Store Warehouse
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$31.59
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$31.59
Amal Unbound
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$13.92
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$13.92
Story Thieves Collection Books 1-3 (Bookmark inside!): Story Thieves; The Stolen Chapters; Secret Origins
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$13.53
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$13.53
You Go First
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$13.34
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$13.34
Girls Who Code: Learn to Code and Change the World
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$13.21
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$13.21
The Wild Robot Escapes
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$13.08
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$13.08
A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel
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$12.41
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$12.41
The Crossover (The Crossover Series)
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$12.29
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$12.29
Beanstalker and Other Hilarious Scarytales
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$11.89
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$11.89
The Wild Robot
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$11.89
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$11.89
Sunny (Track)
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$11.72
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$11.72
Rebound (The Crossover Series)
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$11.72
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$11.72
Booked (The Crossover Series)
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$11.29
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$11.29
To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel
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$11.12
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$11.12
Wishtree
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$10.98
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$10.98
Greetings from Witness Protection!
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$10.48
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$10.48
Just My Luck
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$9.98
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$9.98
Patina (Track)
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$9.98
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$9.98
Brave (Berrybrook Middle School)
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$9.90
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$9.90
Real Friends
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$9.89
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$9.89
Rapunzel's Revenge
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$9.70
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$9.70
Hello, Universe
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$9.48
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$9.48
Spin the Golden Light Bulb (The Crimson Five)
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$9.29
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$9.29
The First Rule of Punk
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$8.99
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$8.99
Awkward (Berrybrook Middle School)
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$8.80
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$8.80
Brown Girl Dreaming
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$8.00
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$8.00
Piecing Me Together
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$7.99
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$7.99
Big Nate: The Crowd Goes Wild!
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$7.99
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$7.99
Big Nate: Silent But Deadly
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$7.99
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$7.99
The City of Ember
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$7.99
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$7.99
One Hundred Years of Poetry for Children
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$7.78
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$7.78
Home of the Brave
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$7.48
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$7.48
Kristy's Big Day (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphix #6): Full-Color Edition
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$7.45
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$7.45
When Friendship Followed Me Home
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$7.19
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$7.19
Code 7: Cracking the Code for an Epic LIfe
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$6.99
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$6.99
As Brave As You
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$6.98
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$6.98
Wish
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$6.98
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$6.98
Stella by Starlight
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$6.63
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$6.63
When You Reach Me (Yearling Newbery)
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$6.39
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$6.39
Save Me a Seat (Scholastic Gold)
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$6.39
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$6.39
11 Birthdays: A Wish Novel
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$5.99
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$5.99
What Was the Holocaust?
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$5.99
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$5.99
Where Is Our Solar System?
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$4.79
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$4.79
Who Was Princess Diana?
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$4.79
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$4.79
What Is the World Cup? (What Was?)
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$4.79
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$4.79
Where Is the Eiffel Tower?
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$4.79
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$4.79
Who Was Frederick Douglass?
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$4.79
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$4.79
Who Are Venus and Serena Williams? (Who Was?)
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$4.54
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$4.54
Materials cost
$517.12
Vendor shipping charges
FREE
Sales tax
$0.00
3rd party payment processing fee
$7.76
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$554.88
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$97.92
Total project goal
$652.80
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal
$652.80
11 Donors
-$413.97
Donations toward project cost
-$359.38
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
-$54.59
match offer
-$230.00
Match offer toward project cost
-$195.50
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