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Ms. Shelton from Noble, OK is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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In Diversity There Is Beauty and There Is Strength

Help me give my students multicultural books to help us dive into diversity!

  • $338 goal

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My Students

I am the Reading Specialist for our elementary school. This means I get to spend each day teaching fourth and fifth grade readers in one of the best rural schools in Oklahoma! My students are a diverse group with varied levels of learning. Our classroom is a space where students enjoy coming to learn. We are a Title I school with the majority of our students receiving free lunches.

These students have huge hearts and love to learn in non-traditional ways including room transformations, arts integrated lessons, and project-based learning.

My students have curiosity, creativity, compassion, and positive attitudes. They are truly amazing people. My school is wonderfully supportive of the active hands-on learning that we do in our classroom. I couldn't ask for a better learning environment for these students. We are truly a community!

My Project

“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”

― Maya Angelou

Our Title 1 Reading class is a place that struggling readers can come to hone their skills, learn a love of reading, and interact with language in a new and exciting way. I have found that by using authentic literature, my students are more engaged, and have more of a desire to participate.

I plan to include these sets of diverse books for them to read and enjoy as we study theme, main idea, language and vocabulary, and compare and contrast the content to their own lives.

As Stephen R. Covey stated, “Strength lies in differences, not in similarities”. I would like to use these book sets to help my students have an avenue to relate to others, and see the beauty in their differences. We will also use the children's books of poetry to help my students with rhythm, rhyme, and verse in an upcoming poetry project.

Ms. Shelton Pioneer Intermediate School Grades 3-5

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Noble, OK View local requests

More than half 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

160 students impacted 3donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Brothers In Hope • AKJ Education $14.56 6 $87.36
Follow the Drinking Gourd • AKJ Education $5.83 6 $34.98
Tar Beach • AKJ Education $5.83 6 $34.98
A Boy Called Slow • AKJ Education $5.83 6 $34.98
Fox in Socks: 50th Anniversay Edition • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
One Fish, Two Fish, Three, Four, Five Fish • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Wheels on the Bus • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
There's a Wocket in My Pocket! • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
Mary Had a Little Lamb • AKJ Education $2.25 1 $2.25
Hey Diddle Diddle • AKJ Education $2.25 1 $2.25
Hickory Dickory Dock • AKJ Education $2.25 1 $2.25
Where, Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone? • AKJ Education $1.95 1 $1.95

Materials cost

$228.69

Vendor shipping charges

 $6.00

Sales tax

 $18.64

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.43

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$286.76

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$50.60

Total project goal

$337.36

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $337.36

2 Donors

-$159.94

Donations toward project cost

-$150.80

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$9.14

match offer

-$159.95

Match offer toward project cost

-$135.96

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$23.99

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$17.47

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 $0.00

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