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Mrs. Tunca from Boise ID is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

The Bridge to Reading

Help me give my students a new novel to do a literature circle with.

  • $271 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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My Students

A typical day in my classroom has students deeply immersed in an integrated curriculum by reading and writing across social studies and science. They learn about a topic by reading, writing, speaking, listening, and interacting with it through different media, including art, and STEM tasks.

My students are wonderful caring individuals who learn best when taught in a variety of ways.

My students come from different backgrounds from around this world. Within my classroom, I have many different languages spoken, including Swahili, French, Arabic, and English. I have many children who are refugees, children who come from low-income homes, and children who are homeless.

My Project

I want to have a small set of The Bridge Home for my classroom. I will use the novels in a small group so students can be exposed to a variety of authors and characters.

The Bridge Home was written by Padma Venkatraman who was born in India and survived a difficult childhood.

Padma is very much like my students and I want to show them that they too, can overcome challenges in their lives.

Padma is a first-generation immigrant and a woman of color. I hope that by showing my students a variety of authors and characters within the books in my classroom they can be exposed to diversity and multiculturalism.

Mrs. Tunca
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Bridge Home • AKJ Education $12.40 15 $186.00

Materials cost

$186.00

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$11.25

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.79

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$230.04

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$40.60

Total project goal

$270.64

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$270.64

5 Donors

-$220.64

Donations toward project cost

-$187.54

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$33.10

match offer

-$50.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$42.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$7.50

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$0.00

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Project Activity

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