You're on track to get doubled donations (and unlock a reward for the colleague who referred you). Keep up the great work!
Take credit for your charitable giving! Check out your tax receipts
Donate
To use your $50 gift card credits, find a project to fund and we'll automatically apply your credits at checkout. Find a classroom project
Skip to main content

Help teachers & students in your hometown this season!
Use code HOME at checkout and your donation will be matched up to $100.

Your school email address was successfully verified.

See this teacher's page

This teacher needs your help!

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

See what Ms. Webb is requesting

We're all Poets!

The cost of 23 poetry related books such as “Favorite Poetry Lessons,” “Teaching 10 Fabulous Forms of Poetry,” “Scholastic Dictionary of Synonyms, Antonyms and Homonyms,” and “Scholastic Children’s Thesaurus” as well as Highlighter Tape and a Refill is $427, including shipping and <a target="new" href="http://www.donorschoose.org/html/fulfillment.htm" onclick="g_openWindow('http://www.donorschoose.org/html/fulfillment.htm', 300, 800, 'fulfillwindow');return false;">fulfillment</a>.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Webb's classroom raised $427

This project is fully funded

My goal this year is for my students to experience poetry, and begin to love it. I would like for my students to hear, read, and write many different forms of poetry. I plan to include poems as a focal point of my teaching this year. This will give all of my students the time to become familiar with different styles of poetry, as well as different poets. I would like my students to read poems, and describe the images that certain words or phrases bring to their minds. I want them to read these poems to one another, and study their favorite poets. I would like for them to illustrate what they see when they read their poems, and write responses to the poems. Finally, I want them to become comfortable enough with poetry to create their own poems. I teach reading, writing, math, science and social studies in a fifth grade classroom in the Chicago Public School system. My class has 27 students, from diverse economic classes, races, and countries. My class includes all ability levels, second language learners, and students with special learning needs. In order to properly make poetry a regular part of our curriculum I would like poetry books with poems appropriate for 10 year-old students. I would like highlighting tape so that students can highlight words and phrases that bring images to their minds without writing in the books. I would like a magnetic poetry kids kit, so that students can kinesthetically form their own poems before putting them on paper. In addition I would like to purchase rhyming dictionaries and thesauruses to aid all of my students in creating their own poetry. I would like a book of idioms to assist my second language learners in interpreting poetry as well as writing it. Finally I would like two books with lessons designed to aid my students in learning how to write different forms of poetry. All 27 of my students will participate in this project. This project will be exciting and enjoyable for my class. It is designed with all of my students in mind. With your help, my class will be on their way to appreciating poetry.

Ms. Webb Ray Elementary School Grades 3-5

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

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Chicago, IL View local requests

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

27 students impacted 1donor

Boost your odds

Add a profile photo in addition to your classroom photo. If you add a photo, it'll show up right here on your project page.

You are more likely to receive funding if you put a face to your name.

Upload a photo

Top rated for efficiency and transparency.

You donate directly to the teacher or project you care about and see where every dollar you give goes.

Expand the "Where your donation goes" section below to see exactly what Ms. Webb is requesting.

See our finances

TEACHERS, FEELING INSPIRED?

You can start a project with the same resources being requested here!

Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Talking like the Rain : A Read-to-Me Book of Poems X. J. Kennedy (Editor), Dorothy M. Kennedy, Jane Dyer (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $19.75 1 $19.75
Mathematickles! Betsy Franco, Steven Salerno (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $16.15 1 $16.15
Jar of Tiny Stars: Poems by Ncte Award-Winning Poets Ncte Award Winning Poets, Marc Nadel (Illustrator), Andi Macleod (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $16.15 1 $16.15
A Child's Introduction to Poetry: Listen While You Learn about the Magic Words that Have Moved Mountains, Won Battles and Made Us Laugh and Cry Michael Driscoll, Meredith Hamilton (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $15.96 1 $15.96
The Random House Book of Poetry for Children : A Treasury of 572 Poems for Today's Child Jack Prelutsky, Arnold Lobel (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $15.96 1 $15.96
Kids' Magnetic Poetry Book and Creativity Kit Dave Kapell, Sally Steenland • Barnes and Noble $15.25 1 $15.25
Opening Days: Sports Poems Scott Medlock (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $14.40 1 $14.40
Edgar Allen Poe's Tales of Mystery and Madness Edgar Allan Poe, Gris Grimly (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $14.36 1 $14.36
Scholastic Student Thesaurus John K. Bollard • Barnes and Noble $13.56 1 $13.56
Teaching 10 Fabulous Forms of Poetry: Great Lessons, Brainstorming Sheets, and Organizers for Writing Haiku, Limericks, Cinquains, and Other Kinds of Poetry Kids Love Paul B. Janeczko, Judy Lynch • Barnes and Noble $13.49 1 $13.49
Scholastic Children's Thesaurus John K. Bollard, Mike Reed (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $12.76 1 $12.76
Light in the Attic Shel Silverstein, Shel Silverstein (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $12.59 1 $12.59
Where the Sidewalk Ends: 30th Anniversary Special Edition Shel Silverstein, Shel Silverstein (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $12.59 1 $12.59
Poetry for Young People: Robert Frost Gary D. Schmidt (Editor), Robert Frost, Henri Sorensen (Illustrator), Henri Sorens (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $11.96 1 $11.96
HIGHLIGHTER TAPE YELLOW REFILL MFG NO: 13155 PK/2 • School Specialty Inc. $11.95 1 $11.95
Favorite Poetry Lessons Paul B. Janeczko, Judy Lynch • Barnes and Noble $11.65 1 $11.65
Ego-Tripping and Other Poems for Young People Nikki Giovanni, George Ford (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $9.85 1 $9.85
The Dream Keeper and Other Poems Langston Hughes, Brian Pinkney (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $8.09 1 $8.09
Scholastic Dictionary of Idioms Marvin Terban, John DeVore (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $8.05 1 $8.05
Math Talk Theoni Pappas • Barnes and Noble $8.05 1 $8.05
The Scholastic Rhyming Dictionary: Over 15,000 Words Sue Daugherty Young, Scholastic Inc • Barnes and Noble $8.05 2 $16.10
HIGHLIGHTER TAPE YELLOW MFG NO: 13150 W/DISPENSER • School Specialty Inc. $7.65 1 $7.65
Scholastic Dictionary of Synonyms, Antonyms and Homonyms Manufactured by Scholastic Reference • Barnes and Noble $4.45 1 $4.45
If You're Not Here, Please Raise Your Hand: Poems about School Kalli Dakos, G. Brian Karas (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $3.55 1 $3.55

Materials cost

$294.32

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

3rd party payment processing fee

Fulfillment labor & materials

Total project cost

$349.53

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$76.73

Total project goal

$426.26

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $426.26

1 Donor

-$419.44

Donations toward project cost

-$350.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$69.44

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$7.39

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

Our team works hard to negotiate the best pricing and selections available.

View complete list Show less

Give the most requested basic supplies

See teacher requests

Give back to your community

Find opportunities to impact local needs by exploring a map of classroom projects near you.

See local area

Project Activity

Project Activity
Back to top

DonorsChoose is the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

As a teacher-founded nonprofit, we're trusted by thousands of teachers and supporters across the country. This classroom request for funding was created by Ms. Webb and reviewed by the DonorsChoose team.

See how DonorsChoose works
{"pmaHash":"","showProjectRecommendations":true,"leadGenEnabled":false,"hideTeacherDetails":false,"schoolState":"IL","teacherPossessivePronoun":"her","PMsManager":null,"schoolGradeType":{"id":2,"name":"Elementary School"},"TeacherPMForms":{},"completingDonationAmount":0,"teacherHasClassroomPhoto":true,"proposalURL":"https://www.donorschoose.org/project/were-all-poets/24256/","mayHaveReplacements":false,"numStudents":27,"isEquityFocusV1":true,"teacherScreenName":"Ms. Webb","isEquityFocus":true,"proposalHash":"-1259062956","isApplePayMobileOnly":true,"progressBarPercentage":100.00,"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":true,"photosPublished":false,"queryString":"","DonorPMForm":null,"shouldTrackEquityFocusV2":true,"schoolCity":"Chicago","teachersOnPage":[19420],"isTeacherViewingTheirOwnProject":false,"minimizedLeadGenEnabled":false,"proposalId":24256,"proposalMessageFormModel":null,"numActiveProjects":0,"verifyShowPhotos":"","eligibleToBeCopied":false,"schoolId":5278,"schoolName":"Ray Elementary School","authorIds":{"19420":{"owner":"Ms. Webb","donationSalutations":{}}},"displayedPercentFunded":1.0,"proposalsOnPage":[24256],"pmaId":"","teacherProfilePhotoURL":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp19420_orig.jpg?crop=2320,2320,x0,y386&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1649108074607","teacherHasProfilePhoto":true,"currentWorkflowStatusCode":22,"teacherChallengeId":48069,"isApplePayEnabled":true,"fundedByTarget":false,"activeProject":null,"donorIdsForImpactPhotoCheck":[],"teacherId":19420,"schoolCounty":"Cook","fullyFunded":true,"isStudentLed":false,"isExpired":true,"schoolStateObj":{"code":"IL","name":"Illinois"}}