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Building Background Knowledge with Scholastic News

Help me give my students 16 copies of Scholastic News and Science Spin, and 10 copies of Storyworks Jr.

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My Students

My Title I school is tucked into a neighborhood. All of the students receive free breakfast and lunch as well as a fruit/veggie snack at the end of the school day. Our students are excited to come to school to learn and interact with their friends. As the reading specialist for my school, I interact with each and every student throughout the week. We love to share and discuss books with one another.

From kindergarten through fifth grade, my students are growing their love of reading on a daily basis.

Students often stop to share with me what they are currently reading. They will stop me in the hall to ask if I have another copy of a book they saw a friend reading. They will thank me for providing new and exciting books for their teachers to read aloud. Students in various grade levels will talk and laugh about books we have read as a school. My students' increasing love of books is growing a culture of literacy in our building.

My Project

Background knowledge plays an essential role in a student's comprehension of text. Therefore, it is extremely difficult to teach students how to apply reading comprehension skills to topics on which they lack any prior knowledge or experience. I want to use weekly articles from Scholastic News and Storyworks Jr. to help build my students' knowledge of the world while also strengthening their reading comprehension skills.

When my students have intriguing text they become thoroughly engaged in building background knowledge and comprehension skills without even realizing it.

As a reading specialist, I work with struggling readers on a daily basis. I find that comprehension skill work is much easier when students have topics in which they are interested. Nonfiction articles, such as those found in Scholastic News magazines, introduce students to current and applicable news stories on their level and allows us to explore multiple comprehension strategies at once as students actively discuss and explore the text.

Ms. Gingrich Barack Obama 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

At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Richmond, VA 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

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Scholastic News, Grade 3 (min. 10 subscriptions per order) • Scholastic Magazines and Book Clubs $5.75 16 $92.00
Storyworks Jr., Grades 2-3 (min. 10 subscriptions per order) • Scholastic Magazines and Book Clubs $8.49 10 $84.90
Science Spin Grades 3-6 • Scholastic Magazines and Book Clubs $0.99 16 $15.84

Materials cost

$192.74

Vendor shipping charges

 $19.27

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.89

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$244.90

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$43.22

Total project goal

$288.12

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $288.12

4 Donors

-$214.59

Donations toward project cost

-$185.40

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$29.19

match offer

-$70.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$59.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$10.50

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$3.53

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 $0.00

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