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Mrs. Agostino from Danville, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Currently Reading: Helping Students Build a Reading Life

My students need high interest books to help them discover a love of reading.

  • $172 goal

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My Students

Most of my students are high achieving and highly motivated. They do their reading and their homework with the hopes of earning entrance into a four year college. They care greatly about getting good grades, but sometimes lose sight of their love of learning in the process. More specifically, many of them have lost their love of reading. They view reading as a boring chore, one that they do begrudgingly, or even worse, don't do at all. I believe my students need more choice in what they read and study, to entice them to be lifelong readers and learners.

In our high performing community, our students "do school," but often miss out on meaningful learning.

They crave choice and independence in their learning. Also, as in any classroom, I have a huge range of reading abilities. By giving them choice, I can better differentiate instruction and use reading conferences to make sure each student has a book that works for him or her.

My Project

Slowly but surely over the past three years, I have built a classroom library for my students to borrow from. I try to foster a classroom environment that reveres reading, but also doesn't judge students' reading choices or levels. Students get to choose what they read, and I try and help them find books that they enjoy, so that they can build a reading life.

The books for this project are all books that my past students have enjoyed, and I want to be able to pass them on to future students.

By continuing to cultivate my library with popular books, I give my students more options and increase the chances of engaging each of them with a book they will love.

Mrs. Agostino San Ramon Valley High School Grades 9-12

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Danville, CA View local requests 150 students impacted 4donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Nineteen Minutes • Amazon Business $6.86 2 $13.72
Gym Candy • Amazon Business $5.62 2 $11.24
Tricks • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Rumble • Amazon Business $9.93 1 $9.93
Defending Jacob: A Novel • Amazon Business $9.52 1 $9.52
The Status of All Things: A Novel • Amazon Business $9.37 1 $9.37
A Monster Calls: Inspired by an idea from Siobhan Dowd • Amazon Business $7.68 1 $7.68
Go Ask Alice • Amazon Business $7.49 1 $7.49
Traffick • Amazon Business $6.82 1 $6.82
More Than This • Amazon Business $6.70 1 $6.70
Between Shades of Gray • Amazon Business $5.69 1 $5.69
Smack • Amazon Business $5.14 1 $5.14

Materials cost

$104.29

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $9.54

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.56

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$145.39

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$25.66

Total project goal

$171.05

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $171.05

3 Donors

-$170.87

Donations toward project cost

-$145.39

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$25.48

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.18

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 $0.00

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