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Mrs. Bailey from Chesapeake, WV is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Building Background Knowledge

Help me give my students the opportunity to increase their background knowledge for reading comprehension with Scholastic News magazines, STEAM book packs, and Science Spin magazines!

  • $336 goal

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My Students

My students are struggling readers in West Virginia. They need tools to learn in an ever changing world. These students are in elementary school and do not always have access to books and or technology. Many of these students come from low-income families that may not know strategies to improve reading.

These students would benefit from having magazines that encourage them to read.

These items will also increase their reading skills and other school related skills.

My Project

Students at my school do not always have the background knowledge to understand what they are reading. Comprehension is a very important reading skill for everyone. If students cannot comprehend what they are reading, school is much more difficult than it has to be. Help me to provide Scholastic News and Science Spin magazines, along with STEAM book packs, to help them to increase their background knowledge in grades 3-5 so they have better comprehension skills before they go on to the next grade. If you can read, you can succeed. Help my students succeed. We need lots of interesting magazines and texts!

Mrs. Bailey Chesapeake Elementary School Grades 3-5

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Chesapeake, WV 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

50 students impacted 2donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Scholastic News®, Grades 5/6 (min. 20 subscriptions per order) (Digital + Print) • Scholastic Magazines and Book Clubs $5.95 20 $119.00
STEAM Pack: Grades 3-6 (DonorsChoose Exclusive) • Scholastic Magazines and Book Clubs $20.00 3 $60.00
Science Spin®, Grades 3-6 (min. 20 subscriptions per order) (Digital + Print) • Scholastic Magazines and Book Clubs $0.99 50 $49.50

Materials cost

$228.50

Vendor shipping charges

 $22.85

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.43

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$284.78

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$50.26

Total project goal

$335.04

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $335.04

1 Donor

-$149.88

Donations toward project cost

-$142.39

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$7.49

match offer

-$167.52

Match offer toward project cost

-$142.39

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$25.13

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$17.64

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 $0.00

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