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Mrs. Katie from Milwaukee, WI is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Empowering Language Acquisition Through Wordless Books

Help me give my students wordless books to enhance their literacy and language skills!

  • $465 goal

This project expired on July 4, 2024.

This project expired on July 4, 2024.

My Project

My project aims to enhance language therapy sessions by incorporating wordless books, a powerful tool for communication development.

Wordless books provide a unique platform for fostering language skills, encouraging creativity, and improving comprehension.

By engaging students in storytelling, critical thinking, and expressive language activities, these books promote vocabulary expansion, sentence formation, and narrative building. This project will create an extensive wordless book library for my speech and language students. It will also allow me to purchase book companions to supplement the concepts discussed in these stories. Through your generous support, I can provide my students with the resources they need to unlock their full linguistic potential and thrive in their language therapy journey. Join me in empowering young minds to communicate confidently and effectively.

Mrs. Katie Trowbridge Street School of Great Lakes Studies Grades PreK-2

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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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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Milwaukee, WI 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

55 students impacted

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
$100 Gift Card for Educational Resources on TPT • TPT $100.00 1 $100.00
Pancakes for Breakfast • Amazon Business $19.99 1 $19.99
The Girl and the Bicycle • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
The Snowman: A Classic Christmas Book for Kids and Toddlers • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
Rosie's Glasses • Amazon Business $16.00 1 $16.00
Unspoken: A Story from the Underground Railroad • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Fly! • Amazon Business $15.17 1 $15.17
Sidewalk Flowers • Amazon Business $14.59 1 $14.59
Where's Walrus? • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
I Forgive Alex: A Simple Story About Understanding • Amazon Business $12.60 1 $12.60
A Ball for Daisy: (Caldecott Medal Winner) (Caldecott Medal - Winner Title(s)) • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Bearded Dragon, Home Alone: A Wordless Picture Book Full of Fun and Joy • Amazon Business $11.95 1 $11.95
Flora and the Flamingo • Amazon Business $11.70 1 $11.70
Hank Finds an Egg • Amazon Business $11.39 1 $11.39
Wolf in the Snow • Amazon Business $11.39 1 $11.39
Spencer's New Pet • Amazon Business $10.94 1 $10.94
Sector 7: A Caldecott Honor Award Winner (Caldecott Honor Book) • Amazon Business $10.89 1 $10.89
Good Dog Carl Visits the Zoo Board Book (Good Dog Carl Collection) • Amazon Business $10.85 1 $10.85
Field Trip to the Moon (Field Trip Adventures) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
A Boy, a Dog, and a Frog • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Frog, Where Are You? (A Boy, a Dog, and a Frog) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99

Materials cost

$359.38

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.39

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$394.77

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$69.67

Total project goal

$464.44

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