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

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Bringing History and Science Alive for Struggling Readers

Help me give my students books with straightforward language and illustrations that invite kids to explore history and science by learning about key people and places that have shaped our world.

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My Students

My 10-13-year-old students have various educational disabilities that make learning challenging. They are motivated and eager to learn content, but their disabilities often hold them back from grasping concepts that come easily to their grade level peers.

Students with reading disabilities struggle to absorb information in science and social studies textbooks.

They spend hours each week working with Special Educators to develop reading skills. We use a variety of teaching strategies to make sure that each child is given the opportunity to maximize their potential. However, my concern is what happens when a child with a reading disability is handed a science or social studies textbook.

Their peers have not faced the challenge of dealing with a reading disability that makes grasping concepts in social studies and science very difficult and frustrating. My students love history, science, math, and the arts but who struggle to read.

My Project

The most difficult part about my job is watching students struggle when they are outside of the Special Education classroom and are with their peers doing science and social students. When I discovered the Who Was and What Was series I realized that I could teach reading and social studies at the same time. I could give my students books that sparked enthusiasm in my students and gave them a window seat to what their peers are learning.

Finally!

A way for students who struggle with reading to actively participate in historical and scientific discussions because they have learned material that compliments what their peers are learning. Finally! Students with disabilities can experience success in social studies and science because they are connecting reading skill acquisition with content learning!

Maybe one day one of my students will be featured as a "Who Was" in the series because they have been inspired by what we are doing today!

Ms. Solberg Longfellow Elementary School Grades 6-8

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Baker, MT View local requests 6 students impacted 5donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Who Was King Tut? • Amazon Business $5.99 6 $35.94
Who Was Genghis Khan? • Amazon Business $5.99 6 $35.94
Who Was Helen Keller? • Amazon Business $5.99 6 $35.94
Who Was Galileo? • Amazon Business $5.99 6 $35.94
Where Is the Parthenon? • Amazon Business $5.99 6 $35.94
Where Are the Great Pyramids? (Where Is?) • Amazon Business $5.99 6 $35.94
Who Was Julius Caesar? • Amazon Business $5.99 6 $35.94
Who Was Alexander the Great? • Amazon Business $5.99 6 $35.94
What Was Pompeii? • Amazon Business $5.99 6 $35.94
Who Was Thomas Alva Edison? • Amazon Business $5.59 6 $33.54
Who Was Albert Einstein? • Amazon Business $5.49 6 $32.94

Materials cost

$389.94

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.85

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$425.79

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$75.14

Total project goal

$500.93

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $500.93

4 Donors

-$415.00

Donations toward project cost

-$355.75

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$59.25

match offer

-$82.40

Match offer toward project cost

-$70.04

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$12.36

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$3.53

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 $0.00

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