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Mrs. Coward from Brooklyn, NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Help Build Our Classroom Library

My students need You! Books such as, "Grandma's Purse, I'm a Pretty Little Black Girl, and Sister Anne's Hands" will help students see themselves in the characters, encourage reading habits, improve reading stamina and comprehension skills.

  • $1,553 goal

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My Students

I believe that reading books that students see themselves, their families, friends and community members in could help improve students' interest in reading. Some of my students are diagnosed with “speech or language impairment, emotional disturbance, and intellectual disability,” and other various learning differences. I've notice that my students are not interested in reading most of the books provided to them.

That is until I started reading aloud, books like "Each Kindness, The Other Side, and If You Come Softly, " by Jacqueline Woodson to the students.

The students became very involved in the reading and asked to read the books on their own. I believe that if students are exposed to books that they could relate to, see themselves, their family, friends and community in, they would be more incline to read.

Books such as Jamaica and Brianna, I Love My Hair, and Hip Hop Speaks to Children could help students see themselves, family, friends and community members in the characters, encourage and develop better reading habits, improve reading stamina and comprehension skills. The books you donate to our students will improve their self-worth too because they are will see themselves in what they read.

My Project

I believe that with the donation of these books for my students, you will expose my students to more reading materials, genres and foster a love for self and of reading. As students are exposed to more reading materials, and genres that they see themselves in, their self-worth and interest in reading will improve. Students will acquire and develop self-awareness, phonemic awareness skills, manipulate patterns to advance reading skills, grow reading fluency, and expand vocabulary exposure.

Books such as My Nana and Me, When God Made Light, Kickoff!, and Two Friends: Susan B.

Anthony and Frederick Douglass will not only grab the students attention because they can see themselves in those books, but with exposed to a wide variety of reading materials, and genres, students might overcome some of their reading difficulties. Students will be allowed to select their own reading materials from the choice that you are helping to buy. I believe that having books that students can see themselves in will improve their self-worth, reading stamina, and comprehension, while fostering a love for reading in the long-term.

Mrs. Coward Middle School 654 Van Siclen Community Middle School Grades 6-8

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

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.

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Brooklyn, NY 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

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Ellington Was Not a Street • Amazon Business $14.96 4 $59.84
Shaking Things Up: 14 Young Women Who Changed the World • Amazon Business $14.34 4 $57.36
Wangari's Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa • Amazon Business $13.91 4 $55.64
Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat (A Poetry Speaks Experience) • Amazon Business $13.45 4 $53.80
I Am Enough • Amazon Business $13.10 4 $52.40
Islandborn • Amazon Business $12.75 4 $51.00
The World Is Awake: A celebration of everyday blessings • Amazon Business $12.75 4 $51.00
Grandma's Purse • Amazon Business $12.59 4 $50.36
Early Sunday Morning (Denene Millner Books) • Amazon Business $12.56 4 $50.24
Ten Magic Butterflies • Amazon Business $12.32 4 $49.28
Two Friends: Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass • Amazon Business $10.98 4 $43.92
I'm a Pretty Little Black Girl! (I'm a Girl! Collection) • Amazon Business $10.28 4 $41.12
When God Made You • Amazon Business $10.21 4 $40.84
Phoebe and Her Unicorn (Phoebe and Her Unicorn Series Book 1) • Amazon Business $9.59 4 $38.36
A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel • Amazon Business $9.51 4 $38.04
My Nana and Me • Amazon Business $8.99 4 $35.96
When God Made Light • Amazon Business $8.73 4 $34.92
Kickoff! (Barber Game Time Books) • Amazon Business $7.99 4 $31.96
Wish • Amazon Business $7.99 4 $31.96
Jump Shot (Barber Game Time Books) • Amazon Business $7.68 4 $30.72
El Deafo • Amazon Business $7.65 4 $30.60
The Birchbark House • Amazon Business $6.98 4 $27.92
What's in a Cave? (What's In There?) • Amazon Business $6.95 4 $27.80
Sharks • Amazon Business $6.64 4 $26.56
Tornadoes! • Amazon Business $6.47 4 $25.88
The Big Bed • Amazon Business $12.14 2 $24.28
Baron, Rescue Dog (Books for Young Learners) • Amazon Business $6.00 4 $24.00
Leroy Ninker Saddles Up: Tales from Deckawoo Drive, Volume One • Amazon Business $5.99 4 $23.96
Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures • Amazon Business $5.97 4 $23.88
My Name Is Maria Isabel • Amazon Business $5.70 4 $22.80
Kizzy Ann Stamps • Amazon Business $5.26 4 $21.04
Messy Bessey (Rookie Readers) • Amazon Business $4.95 4 $19.80
I Love My Hair! • Amazon Business $7.00 2 $14.00
Jamaica and Brianna • Amazon Business $6.95 2 $13.90
Jamaica's Find (Reading Rainbow) • Amazon Business $6.95 2 $13.90
Jamaica Tag-Along • Amazon Business $6.94 2 $13.88
Sister Anne's Hands (Picture Puffins) • Amazon Business $2.95 4 $11.80
Full, Full, Full of Love • Amazon Business $2.81 2 $5.62

Materials cost

$1,270.34

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$19.06

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,319.40

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$232.84

Total project goal

$1,552.24

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,552.24

7 Donors

-$1,552.23

Donations toward project cost

-$1,319.40

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$232.83

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.01

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