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Ms. Moffett from Whitestone, NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Share the Joy of Childhood Classics with ESL Learners

My students need children's classics to build their skills and love for English as a second language.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Moffett's classroom raised $409

This project is fully funded

My Students

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. –Marcel Proust

My ESL students are enthusiastic, multi-faceted young teens who come from a range of cultural backgrounds and immigrant experiences, primarily Spanish, Chinese, and Arabic-speaking.

Each day they work to express themselves fully in a second language, and climb steadily towards that goal, many having moved beyond the initial stage of being lost and lonely in a large urban middle school. Now they must persevere to express themselves with precision and successfully decode grade-level readings and content alongside their peers, despite the comparatively limited resources they have to extend their English language and academic learning beyond school walls.

My Project

Let's face it, sometimes the books we're required to read in school are just no fun. For my students, who still need to master the fundamentals of English, the arduous job of decoding these required grade-level texts saps much of the joy of reading. For my recently-arrived students too, they face another kind of disadvantage; not having a similar cultural frame of reference, like the smiling memories you might share with someone who read the same books as you as a child. My students need children's classics. I'd like to give my students a fun break from the tough texts they work with everyday, and give them a chance to enjoy the classic stories many of us read fondly as children, such as Curious George, Madeline, and Peter Pan. Through a reading challenge where students can start at a comfortable level and rotate books, sharing out their reactions and insight along the way, I hope to spark new drive and imagination that can fuel them further forward on their difficult road to building a strong command of English.

The possibilities of what my students can learn from one another and they ways they can enrich our school community are limitless, as long as they have a safe space to grow their confidence in English.

They can then make better sense of their classes and start to feel more at home in their new school. This is what your donation can help accomplish.

Ms. Moffett Junior High School 194 William H Carr Grades 6-8

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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

102 students impacted 1donor

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie • AKJ Books $16.10 1 $16.10
Strega Nona (Spanish Edition) Tomie dePaola, Tomie de Paola • AKJ Books $13.49 1 $13.49
D''Aulaires Book of Greek Myths • AKJ Books $12.97 1 $12.97
Guess How Much I Love You 20th Anniversary Edition • AKJ Books $12.40 1 $12.40
BFF*: Two Novels by Judy Blume--Just as Long as We&apos • AKJ Books $12.34 1 $12.34
The Napping House Audrey Wood, Don Wood, Don Wood (Illustrat • AKJ Books $11.69 1 $11.69
Maniac Magee • AKJ Books $5.20 2 $10.40
Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A • AKJ Books $10.39 1 $10.39
Jamberry • AKJ Books $5.19 2 $10.38
The Snowy Day • AKJ Books $5.19 2 $10.38
Madeline Deluxe Edition • AKJ Books $5.19 2 $10.38
If You Come Softly Jacqueline Woodson • AKJ Books $5.19 2 $10.38
Curious George • AKJ Books $5.19 2 $10.38
Corduroy • AKJ Books $4.54 2 $9.08
James and the Giant Peach • AKJ Books $4.54 2 $9.08
House on Mango Street, The • AKJ Books $8.03 1 $8.03
Cybil War Betsy Byars • AKJ Books $3.89 2 $7.78
Adivina cuanto te quiero (Guess How Much I Love You) Sam McB • AKJ Books $7.19 1 $7.19
George and Martha James Marshall, James Marshall (Illustrato • AKJ Books $7.14 1 $7.14
Goodnight Moon Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illustrato • AKJ Books $6.49 1 $6.49
Where the Wild Things Are • AKJ Books $5.84 1 $5.84
Ring of Endless Light • AKJ Books $5.84 1 $5.84
Phantom Tollbooth • AKJ Books $5.83 1 $5.83
Strega Nona • AKJ Books $5.19 1 $5.19
The Endless Steppe: Growing up in Siberia Esther Hautzig • AKJ Books $5.19 1 $5.19
Where the Red Fern Grows • AKJ Books $5.10 1 $5.10
Harold and the Purple Crayon • AKJ Books $4.54 1 $4.54
Island of the Blue Dolphins Scott O''Dell, Lois Lowry (Introd • AKJ Books $4.54 1 $4.54
Goodnight Moon (Spanish edition) • AKJ Books $4.54 1 $4.54
Pancakes For Breakfast (Trade) • AKJ Books $4.54 1 $4.54
Se venden gorras Esphyr Slobodkina, Esphyr Slobodkina (Illus • AKJ Books $4.54 1 $4.54
Caps for Sale • AKJ Books $4.54 1 $4.54
Harold y el lapiz color morado • AKJ Books $4.54 1 $4.54
The Magic School Bus at the Waterworks (Magic School Bus Ser • AKJ Books $4.54 1 $4.54
Magic School Bus Inside the Earth • AKJ Books $4.54 1 $4.54
The Magic School Bus inside the Human Body (Magic School Bus • AKJ Books $4.54 1 $4.54
Red Riding Hood • AKJ Books $4.54 1 $4.54
Goldilocks and the Three Bears • AKJ Books $4.54 1 $4.54
The Three Little Pigs James Marshall, James Marshall (Artist • AKJ Books $4.54 1 $4.54
George + Martha Spanish • AKJ Books $4.52 1 $4.52
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl • AKJ Books $3.89 1 $3.89
Peter Pan • AKJ Books $3.22 1 $3.22
Snowman: (Step into Reading Books Series: A Step 1 Book Raym • AKJ Books $2.59 1 $2.59

Materials cost

$312.70

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.69

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$347.39

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$61.30

Total project goal

$408.69

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $408.69

1 Donor

-$408.69

Donations toward project cost

-$347.39

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$61.30

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