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Ms. McDonough from Portland, ME is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Guided Reading With Fiction!

Help me give my students guided reading books in group sets that can be used during guided reading!

  • $700 goal

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Ms. McDonough has another project! Donate to Supplies Needed! to help her classroom.

$447 - complete this project and be a hero

My Students

My students are an amazing group of diverse learners in Portland, Maine. We have students from all economic circumstances; many of whom are English Language Learners. We are in an urban environment located on the coast of Maine.

Students at our school need rich learning opportunities, facilitated by knowing teachers.

Due to the various backgrounds of our student body, we are in need of materials and tools to narrow the experiential gap of our students especially those tools which strengthen language development. Our school is an important part of our local community and strengthening our community connection is a priority.

My Project

My students need new fiction guided reading books. These books will be used during guided reading and independent reading so that students can reinforce all the skills they are working on mastering. These books will be used to teach character traits and changes that a character makes throughout a story. Students will also use these books to increase their reading fluency.

High quality fiction guided reading books are so useful for the students in my classroom.

Students need to be able to read these books during guided reading and then be able to take a copy to reread many times. If there are not enough copies of books, then the students are not able to independently read these books. Thank you for considering my project.

Ms. McDonough Howard C Reiche Community School Grades PreK-2

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.

More about Ms. McDonough

Portland, ME 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

22 students impacted 16donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Guided Reading Collection: Level D Fiction (20 books) • AKJ Education $88.32 6 $529.92

Materials cost

$529.92

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $26.50

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.95

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$594.37

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$104.89

Total project goal

$699.26

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $699.26

15 Donors

-$633.08

Donations toward project cost

-$543.37

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$89.71

match offer

-$60.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$51.00

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$9.00

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$6.18

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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