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Ms. King from Spring Church, PA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Help Wanted! Struggling Readers Need Books!

Help me give my students mentor texts for a new supplemental reading series.

  • $556 goal

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My Project

The books I am requesting for my classroom will be used to transform my ELA curriculum. As a reading specialist who teaches a reading class consisting of students that read one to three grade levels below, it is difficult for them to follow the standard 4th grade curriculum utilized by my school. After many years of adapting and modifying our curriculum, I finally found a resource that is suitable for my students. This resource focuses around a read-aloud story each week - which are the books I am requesting. The books reflect a variety of genres that will expose my students to numerous topics. In addition, each week there is a focus on different comprehension strategies and skills, vocabulary, and grammar concepts. All lesson plans and activities are aligned to the Common Core State Standards as well.

Please help me take my students on a reading journey to set them up for success!

My young learners get too frustrated with the material presented to them at the higher level, and they deserve to have a love for reading. I know the books I am requesting and this new curriculum will benefit my students and help them gain confidence in their reading abilities.

Ms. King Apollo Ridge Elementary School Grades 3-5

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Spring Church, PA 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

24 students impacted 3donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Hoop Genius: How a Desperate Teacher and a Rowdy Gym Class Invented Basketball • Amazon Business $19.99 1 $19.99
The House That Jane Built: A Story About Jane Addams • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
Rotten Richie and the Ultimate Dare • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
Trombone Shorty • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Pecos Bill Invents the Ten-Gallon Hat • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
National Geographic Book of Animal Poetry: 200 Poems with Photographs That Squeak, Soar, and Roar! • Amazon Business $16.49 1 $16.49
Memoirs of a Hamster • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Two Bad Ants • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear (Caldecott Medal Winner) • Amazon Business $13.69 1 $13.69
When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson • Amazon Business $13.49 1 $13.49
Turkey Bowl • Amazon Business $13.39 1 $13.39
The Carpenter's Gift: A Christmas Tale about the Rockefeller Center Tree • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Substitute Creacher • Amazon Business $12.95 1 $12.95
Creature Features: Twenty-Five Animals Explain Why They Look the Way They Do • Amazon Business $12.31 1 $12.31
Last Stop on Market Street • Amazon Business $11.49 1 $11.49
Thank You, Mr. Falker • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark • Amazon Business $10.59 1 $10.59
The Tree Lady: The True Story of How One Tree-Loving Woman Changed a City Forever • Amazon Business $10.39 1 $10.39
Humphrey the Lost Whale: A True Story • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother (Aladdin Picture Books) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
The Raft • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Princess Hyacinth (The Surprising Tale of a Girl Who Floated) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Saturdays and Teacakes • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
The Polar Bear Son: An Inuit Tale • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Cactus Soup • Amazon Business $8.49 1 $8.49
Crow Boy (Picture Puffin Books) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Pinduli • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
How Many Days to America?: A Thanksgiving Story • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Picnic at Mudsock Meadow • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree: An Appalachian Story (Picture Puffin Books) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Ruby's Wish • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
On a Beam of Light: A Story of Albert Einstein (Albert Einstein Book for Kids, Books About Scientists for Kids, Biographies for Kids, Kids Science Books) (Illustrated Biographies by Chronicle Books) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
The Legend of Old Befana: An Italian Christmas Story • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
What Really Happened to Humpty? (Nursery-Rhyme Mysteries) • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95
I Wonder Why Penguins Can't Fly: And Other Questions About Polar Lands • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Seven Spools of Thread: A Kwanzaa Story (Albert Whitman Prairie Paperback) • Amazon Business $6.70 1 $6.70
The Perfect School Picture • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99

Materials cost

$435.62

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.53

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$472.15

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$83.32

Total project goal

$555.47

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$555.47

2 Donors

-$555.47

Donations toward project cost

-$472.15

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$83.32

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