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Mrs. Shields from Milwaukee, WI is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Inviting Students to Love Reading

Help me give my students updated and high interest reading materials to spark their love of reading.

  • 5 donors
  • $449 goal

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Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Project

Much of teaching is helping students learn to read and develop a love of reading. It is much easier to do that when a classroom has materials that are up-to-date and high interest. Students who read at school and at home are more likely to become proficient readers.

Guiding students to find books they want to read, greatly increases the amount of time they read.

This in turn leads to improved reading abilities. An inviting classroom library with new books for students to peruse, select, and read will create excitement about reading and get students talking about books. When students are engaged in reading and talking about when they are reading, they are learning. The benefits of reading growth will directly impact other content areas.

Mrs. Shields
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Baby-Sitters Club Series Graphic Novels Collection Set, Books 1-13 Set (Graphix) • Amazon Business $97.90 1 $97.90
Dog Man Books Series Set 1-10 • Amazon Business $72.90 1 $72.90
Bad Guys 7 Books Set (#11 - #17) • Amazon Business $45.55 1 $45.55
I Survived Graphic Novels #1-4: A Graphix Collection (I Survived Graphix) • Amazon Business $25.61 1 $25.61
The Bad Guys Even Badder Box Set (The Bad Guys #6-10) • Amazon Business $23.99 1 $23.99
The Cat Kid Comic Club Collection: From the Creator of Dog Man (Cat Kid Comic Club #1-3 Boxed Set) • Amazon Business $22.00 1 $22.00
Be a Bridge • Amazon Business $16.63 1 $16.63
P Is for Pterodactyl: The Worst Alphabet Book Ever • Amazon Business $8.58 1 $8.58
The Last Mapmaker • Amazon Business $7.19 1 $7.19
Freewater (Newbery & Coretta Scott King Award Winner) • Amazon Business $6.89 1 $6.89
Who Was the Greatest?: Muhammad Ali: A Who HQ Graphic Novel (Who HQ Graphic Novels) • Amazon Business $6.79 1 $6.79
Who Was Muhammad Ali? • Amazon Business $6.29 1 $6.29
The Bad Guys in Look Who's Talking (The Bad Guys #18) • Amazon Business $5.58 1 $5.58

Materials cost

$345.90

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.19

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$381.09

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$67.25

Total project goal

$448.34

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $448.34

4 Donors

-$165.00

Donations toward project cost

-$142.50

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$22.50

match offer

-$280.69

Match offer toward project cost

-$238.59

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$42.10

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$2.65

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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