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Mrs. Collis from Ayden, NC is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Improving Literacy in the Music Classroom!

Help me give my students books for our music classroom library that will help them improve their literacy skills while still learning about music!

  • 4 donors
  • $500 goal

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Mrs. Collis has another project! Donate to “You Can’t Tune a Fish!” to help her classroom.

All donations currently doubled!
You can complete this project for $181.
2X

My Project

Reading is such a wonderful activity for our students' brains. As teachers we encourage them to read daily so that they can improve their literacy skills and be successful in ALL of their classes.

This project would allow us to have more books for our music classroom library that more students could read and improve their literacy while still keeping music as the subject!

Thank you so much for your consideration in helping us to have a variety of books about music for our students to read in the music classroom! We hope that this will encourage them to read more in the future.

Mrs. Collis Ayden Middle School 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.

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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
Operation Final Notice • Amazon Business $14.00 1 $14.00
Swing (Blink) • Amazon Business $12.79 1 $12.79
The Other Side of Summer - Hardcover Book • AKJ Education $12.04 1 $12.04
Scout Is Not a Band Kid: (A Graphic Novel) • Amazon Business $12.00 1 $12.00
La primera regla del punk / The First Rule of Punk (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $10.95 1 $10.95
Playing Through the Turnaround • Amazon Business $10.89 1 $10.89
Music and How it Works: The Complete Guide for Kids • Amazon Business $10.79 1 $10.79
Tegan and Sara - Tegan and Sara: Junior High - Hardcover Book • AKJ Education $10.53 1 $10.53
Broken Strings • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Solo (Blink) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
A Duet for Home • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Candidly Cline - Hardcover Book • AKJ Education $9.15 1 $9.15
Breathing Underwater • Amazon Business $9.10 1 $9.10
The Boys in the Back Row • Amazon Business $8.82 1 $8.82
The Sweetest Sound • Amazon Business $8.47 1 $8.47
All Summer Long (Eagle Rock Series) • Amazon Business $8.41 1 $8.41
Tune It Out • Amazon Business $8.36 1 $8.36
Operation Sisterhood • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Drum Roll, Please • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
I Am Drums • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Garvey's Choice - Hardcover Book • AKJ Education $7.95 1 $7.95
Barakah Beats • Amazon Business $7.43 1 $7.43
A Song Only I Can Hear • Amazon Business $7.37 1 $7.37
Drum Roll, Please - Paperback Book • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Giant Pumpkin Suite • Amazon Business $7.25 1 $7.25
Rourke Educational Media Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Leaders Like Us Series, Guided Reading Level O Reader (Volume 6) • Amazon Business $7.16 1 $7.16
Weird Kid • Amazon Business $7.10 1 $7.10
The Chance to Fly (The Chance to Fly #1): A Novel • Amazon Business $7.01 1 $7.01
Who Is Elton John? (Who Was?) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Clayton Byrd Goes Underground • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Simon B. Rhymin' Gets in the Game (Simon B. Rhymin’, 3) • Amazon Business $6.79 1 $6.79
Moonwalking • Amazon Business $6.76 1 $6.76
Song for a Whale - Paperback Book • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Yang the Youngest and his Terrible Ear - Paperback Book • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
The First Rule of Punk • Amazon Business $6.39 1 $6.39
Blackbird Fly - Paperback Book • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
The Last Holiday Concert - Paperback Book • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Aven Green Music Machine (Volume 3) • Amazon Business $5.57 1 $5.57
Let Me Hear a Rhyme • Amazon Business $5.27 1 $5.27
Who Was...? - Who Is Bono? - Paperback Book • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Sarai Saves the Music (Sarai #3) - Paperback Book • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Who Is Taylor Swift? (Who Was?) • Amazon Business $4.93 1 $4.93
Who Was...? - Who Is Zendaya? - Paperback Book • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was...? - Who Is Harry Styles? - Paperback Book • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was...? - Who Is Cynthia Erivo? - Paperback Book • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was...? - Who Is Ariana Grande? - Paperback Book • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37

Materials cost

$360.95

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $28.15

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.41

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$424.51

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$74.91

Total project goal

$499.42

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $499.42

3 Donors

-$165.30

Donations toward project cost

-$143.50

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$21.80

match offer

-$330.60

Match offer toward project cost

-$281.01

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$49.59

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$3.52

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