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Ms. O'Neil-Dunne from Brooklyn, NY is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Help My Students Fall in Love with Reading!

My students need sets of stories read aloud on CD with the picture books so they can follow along.

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My Students

In her novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith wrote "Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she [or he!] can read printed words!" Kindergarten is the year when many of my students will experience this magic hour, and I want to make sure it happens with a great book.

My classroom, located in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, will serve just over 20 creative and inquisitive kindergarteners this year.

Ninety-two percent of students at my school receive free or reduced lunch. We have a unique focus on social and emotional learning that emphasizes student choice, personal responsibility, true love of learning, and care for the world around us, and what better way to accomplish those things than through truly wonderful books?

My Project

In our small group literacy time, my students rotate through activity centers, and one of the most beloved centers in any classroom is the listening center. Students don headphones and gather around a cd player. Each student will have a copy of the same picture book (with these amazing sets from Lakeshore, one week it could be Jamaica's Find, Juanita Havill's tale about an ethical dilemma; the next week, Ludwig Bemelmans' classic Madeline). Upon pressing "play", students' ears fill with the exciting sound of the book read aloud, just for them. As students follow along in their own text, they are developing valuable reading skills by associating written and spoken words.

By donating to our class, my students will not only have access to these magical stories, but also to the experience of hearing a text read aloud over and over.

The two sets I am wishing for are a Social Studies Set (titles include "The Relatives Came" "All the Colors of the Earth" and "Wemberly Worried") and a Favorite Picture Book Set (I can't wait for them to read "Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock"!). Who knows which book will be the one that makes a child fall in love with reading?

Ms. O'Neil-Dunne Citizens of the World Charter School 2 Grades PreK-2

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Brooklyn, NY View local requests 20 students impacted 7donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
RE580X - Favorite Picture Book Read-Alongs - Set 2 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $199.00 1 $199.00
RE720X - Social Studies Stories Read-Alongs • Lakeshore Learning Materials $159.00 1 $159.00

Materials cost

$358.00

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.37

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$393.37

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$69.42

Total project goal

$462.79

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $462.79

5 Donors

-$231.39

Donations toward project cost

-$196.68

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$34.71

match offer

-$231.40

Match offer toward project cost

-$196.69

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$34.71

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 $0.00

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