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Mrs. Bessick from Middleton WI is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Shared Books for Shared Reading

Help me give my students engaging, high-interest, low-level books for my most striving readers.

  • $290 goal

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My Students

First grade is such a huge year for learning. They come in as little kindergarteners and leave as big second graders. The amount they learn in first grade can arguably be the most a student learns in one year in their entire educational career. They learn how to read, write, add, subtract, and how to be in charge of their learning.

I teach in a low-income public school and am a dual language teacher.

I have two classes of students that come to me to learn math and literacy in English. My partner teaches literacy, science and social studies in Spanish. Because I am in a low-income school, many of my students come to school without adequate knowledge and experiences. They have a lot of catching up to do compared to a typical student. My goal is to do everything I can to decrease that gap and instill in them a love of learning.

My Project

Shared reading is a strategy that helps my most striving first graders who are just learning to read. It is a technique where we read a book together over multiple days practicing reading skills, vocabulary, and sight words.

Shared reading helps our most striving learners feel like readers.

With teacher and text support, students will be able to independently read books above their level and feel like readers. They will be able to read these over and over and practice their reading each time they read.

These high-interest and engaging books will be perfect for teaching important sight words, practicing simple phonics skills, and engaging in simple word solving strategies.

Mrs. Bessick
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Let's Go Visiting • Amazon Business $7.99 3 $23.97
I Went Walking (A Voyager/Hbj Book) • Amazon Business $7.59 3 $22.77
Cookie's Week • Amazon Business $5.99 3 $17.97
Go, Otto, Go! (The Adventures of Otto) • Amazon Business $4.99 3 $14.97
See Pip Flap: Ready-to-Read Pre-Level 1 (The Adventures of Otto) • Amazon Business $4.99 3 $14.97
Down on the Farm (Green Light Readers. Level 1) • Amazon Business $4.99 3 $14.97
Pug (I Like to Read) • Amazon Business $4.99 3 $14.97
See Otto (The Adventures of Otto) • Amazon Business $3.99 3 $11.97
Ride, Otto, Ride! (The Adventures of Otto) • Amazon Business $3.99 3 $11.97
See Pip Point (The Adventures of Otto) • Amazon Business $3.99 3 $11.97
Gus Makes a Friend (Scholastic Reader, Pre-Level 1) • Amazon Business $3.99 3 $11.97
Big Shark, Little Shark (Step into Reading) • Amazon Business $3.49 3 $10.47
Party Pigs! (Ready-to-Reads) • Amazon Business $4.99 2 $9.98
Space Cows (Ready-to-Reads) • Amazon Business $4.99 2 $9.98
Sea Sheep (Ready-to-Reads) • Amazon Business $4.99 2 $9.98

Materials cost

$212.88

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.19

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$246.07

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$43.42

Total project goal

$289.49

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $289.49

1 Donor

-$144.74

Donations toward project cost

-$123.03

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$21.71

match offer

-$144.75

Match offer toward project cost

-$123.04

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$21.71

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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