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Ms. Burch from Chesapeake, VA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Developing Life-Long Readers!

My students need popular series to read independently or in guided reading that will engage them and are fourth grade favorites!

  • $518 goal

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Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Students

Many teachers face the same problem: a lack of resources provided by the school. While our Reading Resource room is filled with many excellent novel choices, frequently they are lost or checked out by another teacher. It would be nice to have series of my own, and not have to share them with anyone.

I teach the fourth grade gifted class at a Title 1 school.

These students are of a low socioeconomic statue and don't have the resources or the support at home to help them become life-long readers, or even just someone who can appreciate a story that completely envelopes you into another world. I am lucky enough to have a small amount of students who already have developed a love of reading. For those that haven't though, I always want to give them a text that spoke to me as a child, and often times I can't find it or it's unavailable.

My Project

Having these series in the classroom would allow me to give my students the opportunity to read and explore stories together that are academically sound, on their levels, and have stood the test of time through the children's literature world. It would also ensure that they would always have them to come back to because they wouldn't have to be shared with anyone else.

There is nothing more important in a classroom than a classroom library; a solid and safe back-up to every completion of an activity, every early finisher, every down moment or transition time, every rainy day recess, every silent lunch, and more...it's there.

With the way our society is moving through technological advances at a lighting speed, to me, the look, feel, and even smell of a book is becoming that much more important.

Ms. Burch
Grades 3-5

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Bridge to Terabithia • AKJ Books $5.17 7 $36.19
Journey to Jamestown • AKJ Books $5.88 7 $41.16
Blood on the River • AKJ Books $5.17 6 $31.02
No Talking (PB) • AKJ Books $4.43 6 $26.58
Back to School Boxed Set: School Story/The Report Card/A Wee • AKJ Books $12.57 6 $75.42
Frindle • AKJ Books $4.43 6 $26.58
5-Minute Proofreading Practice • AKJ Books $12.57 1 $12.57
5-Minute Grammar Practice • AKJ Books $12.57 1 $12.57
The BFG • AKJ Books $5.17 7 $36.19
Artemis Fowl • AKJ Books $29.56 1 $29.56
Percy Jackson and the Olympians • AKJ Books $29.56 1 $29.56
Grade 4 - NonFiction • AKJ Books $41.11 1 $41.11

Materials cost

$398.51

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.98

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$439.49

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$77.56

Total project goal

$517.05

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $517.05

9 Donors

-$466.40

Donations toward project cost

-$396.44

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$69.96

Matching donations from our partners

-$50.00

Match offers toward project cost

-$42.50

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$7.50

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 $0.00

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