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

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The Places Reading Can Take You!

Help me give my students Scholastic News and Science Spin Magazines so they can read about different countries, communities, and cultures.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Baker's classroom raised $507

This project is fully funded

My Students

As a teacher in a low-income/high-poverty school district, my students are faced with challenges both in and out of the classroom. Despite the many challenges they face, I want to provide my students with creative and meaningful learning experiences.

My students are very inquisitive about their studies.

They often have questions about the different places or people that they read about. The resources that my students have been very limited, so they don’t have the opportunities that other students have. I have no control over their home life, but I can control what happens at school. As their teacher, I want to give them as many learning experiences as I can that will help them connect to what they are studying.

My students come to school energetic and ready to learn but need appropriate reading resources that will expose them to new and exciting things.

My Project

Reading is important because it develops the mind. Kids who read more will perform better, acquire a greater vocabulary and develop better critical thinking skills. It is important that I expose my students to nonfiction texts to help build their reading skills and increase their science and social studies knowledge with engaging informational texts.

Exposing children to high-quality literature allows them to take in information, sort it, and think critically about it.

The students will have the opportunity to learn about current events at a level that they can understand.

Ms. Baker Edward K. Duke Ellington Elementary School Grades PreK-2

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Chicago, IL View local requests

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

50 students impacted 1donor

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Scholastic News®, Grade 2 (min. 20 subscriptions per order) (Digital + Print) • Scholastic Magazines and Book Clubs $5.95 52 $309.40
Science Spin®, Grade 2 (min. 20 subscriptions per order) (Digital + Print) • Scholastic Magazines and Book Clubs $0.99 50 $49.50

Materials cost

$358.90

Vendor shipping charges

 $35.89

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.38

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$430.17

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$75.91

Total project goal

$506.08

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $506.08

1 Donor

-$506.08

Donations toward project cost

-$430.17

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$75.91

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