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Ms. Shafto from Durham, NC is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Bringing the Real World to ESL Reading Intervention!

Help me give my students these National Geographic book sets that they have been tearing through all year long! These are perfect for my ESL learners.

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My Project

All year long, my ESL team has been focused on providing opportunities for silent sustained reading for our learners, for three reasons:

First, we want to build reading stamina in our learners; second, to foster a love of reading and a class that they look forward to coming to; and third, because it's maximally differentiated!

When every learner is reading an on-level book, they are ALL learning at their level, and that is an amazing and rare classroom to walk into! We've decided to roll out more opportunities for solo reading into all of our ESL intervention blocks, and need bigger libraries to make that happen.

My kids have been TEARING through these National Geographic readers, Fly Guy books, and reworked fairy tales. They're full of interesting pictures and images, are always written about high interest topics, and contain rich vocabulary to prep them all across the classes they're taking. Through these books, my students have told me about mummies in Egypt, volcanoes in Ancient Greece, the perfect conditions for a tornado, and so much more. These books provide a window into the real world, while building the general knowledge vocabulary that our ESL students are so in need of!

By funding this project, you'll be outfitting three different classrooms with book sets to take them through hours of sustained reading time. You will be giving our students one of the most precious gifts a teacher can offer - learning to love reading!

Ms. Shafto Brogden Middle School Grades 6-8

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

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Durham, NC 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

85 students impacted 11donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
National Geographic Nonfiction Readers - Complete Series • Lakeshore Learning Materials $169.00 3 $507.00
Capstone Press Graphic Spin Books Levels I - M - Set of 8 • Kaplan Early Learning Company $47.66 3 $142.98
A Library of Fly Guy 20 Books Collection Series Boxed Set, 1-20 Complete Books, Boxed Collection for Boys Girls • Amazon Business $68.15 2 $136.30
National Geographic Kids Ocean Life Six Book Set : Weird Sea Creatures, Dolphins,Coral Reefs, At the Beach, Sea Turtles, Great Migrations: Whales • Amazon Business $33.19 3 $99.57

Materials cost

$885.85

Vendor shipping charges

 $25.35

Sales tax

 $69.10

3rd party payment processing fee

$13.29

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,023.59

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$180.63

Total project goal

$1,204.22

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,204.22

9 Donors

-$984.22

Donations toward project cost

-$840.84

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$143.38

Matching donations from our partners

-$215.00

Match offers toward project cost

-$182.75

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$32.25

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$5.00

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 $0.00

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