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Ms. Hoard from Kingwood, TX is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Using Poetry to Unlock the Passion of Reading

Help me give my students the experience of getting so caught up in the events of a great story that you are right there with the characters through poetry books.

  • $688 goal

This project expired on June 20, 2025.

This project expired on June 20, 2025.

My Project

Teaching literacy skills across content areas is a vital component of academic achievement. By engaging children in important literacy skills through short and engaging poems, students are likely to make connections, infer, and evaluate their learning across all curriculum.

I hope to encourage literacy skills by incorporating poems into daily lessons in all subject areas for our students in Kinder through fifth grade.

These diverse collections of poetry will help students make connections, visualize, and better understand the world around them.

By donating to our project, you will support the love of reading for many students while also having a positive impact on their overall academic success throughout all content areas.

Ms. Hoard Hidden Hollow Elementary School Grades 3-5 Kingwood, TX View local requests

More than a third 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

Never Before Funded 450 students impacted

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Poetry of US: More than 200 poems that celebrate the people, places, and passions of the United States • Amazon Business $24.99 3 $74.97
The Poetry Friday Anthology (Common Core K-5 edition): Poems for the School Year with Connections to the Common Core • Amazon Business $35.37 2 $70.74
The Poetry of Science: The Poetry Friday Anthology for Science for Kids • Amazon Business $19.99 3 $59.97
This Poem Is a Nest • Amazon Business $17.01 3 $51.03
After Dark: Poems about Nocturnal Animals • Amazon Business $16.19 3 $48.57
School People • Amazon Business $15.72 3 $47.16
Toasting Marshmallows: Camping Poems • Amazon Business $15.19 3 $45.57
A Hatful of Dragons: And More Than 13.8 Billion Other Funny Poems • Amazon Business $15.17 3 $45.51
A Fortune for Your Disaster • Amazon Business $14.70 3 $44.10
Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reverso Poems • Amazon Business $11.19 3 $33.57
Firefly July: A Year of Very Short Poems • Amazon Business $8.36 3 $25.08

Materials cost

$546.27

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$8.19

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$584.46

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$103.14

Total project goal

$687.60

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