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

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Help Our English Language Learners Get Books They'll Love!

My students need a library of guided and independent reading books at their guided reading levels (H-M) and high-interest magazines that they can also read independently.

  • $976 goal

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This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

In our large 7th Grade English/ESL classes, we have students from many different cultures and backgrounds. Students speak many different languages at home, and come together at school to create an enthusiastic, eager, and awesome group of learners.

This year, my co-teacher and I have students from the Caribbean, Mexico, Central America, Bangladesh, and China.

Our students are coming with many different levels of reading ability, and our goal is to help create a classroom of powerful, confident readers. The students are excited to become stronger readers, and have jumped into their independent reading books this year with a great deal of zest and excitement. We want to keep this excitement going by providing a library full of books that are at their appropriate reading levels. We have very few students who are currently reading on the 7th grade level, and the reality is that middle schools don't stock enough books for students reading at a 2nd-3rd grade level, like the majority of our students. We are a new middle school, currently in our third year of operation. We have little in the way of resources, and are working slowly and steadily to build our classroom libraries.

My Project

These books and magazines will be used to enrich our independent reading library. Research shows that students need to be reading every single night in order to improve their stamina, vocabularies, and ability to comprehend texts. We want to support this practice by offering a library with lots of options for texts. Additionally, as I teach in an ICT environment (half general education students and half students with disabilities), my co-teacher and I will be using small group reading instruction (guided reading) frequently. We need the texts at students' current reading levels and just beyond in order to facilitate our teaching in these structures. With increased and focused reading practice, we know our students will grow and improve greatly this year in their reading abilities.

Many of our students are very self-conscious about their current reading levels.

They recognize that the books that they're reading look like "baby books" and that we don't have much of a selection. We need to help them feel comfortable with where they are, so that they have the ability to push themselves forward through practice. With these texts, students will have the tools and gain the confidence necessary to become stronger readers.

Ms. Cancila Evergreen Middle School - Urban Exploration Grades 6-8

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. Cancila

Brooklyn, NY View local requests

More than three‑quarters 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

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Grade 2 Full Grade Set (160 bk set) • AKJ Books $682.93 1 $682.93
Scholastic News, Grade 2 (min. 10 subscriptions per order) - 32 Issues / Min. 10 Subscriptions / Grade 2 • Scholastic Classroom Magazines $4.75 10 $47.50
Scholastic News, Grade 3 (min. 10 subscriptions per order) - 24 Issues / Min. 10 Subscriptions / Grade 3 • Scholastic Classroom Magazines $4.75 10 $47.50

Materials cost

$777.93

Vendor shipping charges

 $9.50

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.67

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$829.10

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$146.31

Total project goal

$975.41

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $975.41

7 Donors

-$731.00

Donations toward project cost

-$637.85

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$93.15

match offer

-$225.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$191.25

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$33.75

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$19.41

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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