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Ms. Carlson from Worcester, MA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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We're Going on Book Hunts and We're Not Scared!

My students need access to read, listen, following along, and sing with books that their own reading levels.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Carlson's classroom raised $439

This project is fully funded

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Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

My wonderful and warm-hearted students range in the age of six to seven-years old. Many of my students have obstacles blocking their success to their academic social journey. Most live in poverty, struggle with the English language and have very limited resources. Some of my students are homeless or live in foster care.

If you were to visit our classroom, you would never know my students were faced with so much adversity in their lives.

The excitement and willingness to learn is what you will see and love!

My Project

Students will have the opportunity to read, listen, follow along to their own books at their own reading abilities during the literacy block. As the students read, they will have a quick writing assessment to follow. This best practice will help them not only with comprehension, but with spelling, vocabulary development, letter formation, and creativity by drawing any pictures with the assessment. It is a wonderful chance for independent learning as I pull students for small group instruction.

This will surely be a success for fluency, sigh word practice, and comprehension at this own pace.

I love that they will be able to sing along with some of the books to educate them in the music and arts development.

Ms. Carlson Belmont Street Community School Grades PreK-2

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.

Worcester, MA 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

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
RE550X - Leveled C-G Read-Alongs • Lakeshore Learning Materials $209.00 1 $209.00
CE764 - Ready-To-Go Listening Center for 4 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $129.00 1 $129.00

Materials cost

$338.00

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.07

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$373.07

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$65.84

Total project goal

$438.91

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$438.91

3 Donors

-$378.91

Donations toward project cost

-$322.07

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$56.84

match offer

-$60.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$51.00

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$9.00

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$0.00

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