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Mrs. Woodburn from Nashville, TN is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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New Readers Need Non-Fiction

My students need nonfiction readers to add to our leveled reader library.

  • $400 goal

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My Students

Some of my students only get to experience fascinating parts of the globe through books. They get to see mind-boggling scientific phenomena through the glossy pages of great non-fiction. While the illustrations are key, they need to be able to read the books that excite them.

My students typically come from one of the highest poverty areas in Nashville.

After teaching for several years in a few different schools, I am constantly humbled how open my families have been in sharing their personal hardships. Even early on in the year, I have seen students come to school with tremendous personal struggles and still come to school ready to do their best. Because in my classroom, we are constantly working towards becoming the best scholars we can be and preparing ourselves "to college... and beyond!"

My Project

One of the constant questions I tackle is when talking with parents is how to increase our kiddos access to the books they need. I can tell from their reading logs that most of them are reading only fiction books at home. That means, I need to compensate with even more non-fiction texts as best practice aims for a 50-50 balance of genres. My library is disproportionately made up of fiction books and many of the non-fiction books I have were donated (thank you!) in the past when I taught 4th grade. Due to district changes, our science, social studies, and writing times have been reduced this year. To compensate, I am trying to have the students engage with non-fiction during their independent reading and writing stations. To do this, we need to have a collection of non-fiction readers that they can independently read. It is very difficult to find low level non-fiction readers at the public library, so I am trying to build up my classroom library to fit their needs.

My students will be more engaged during independent work time with non fiction texts at their level.

They will feel a sense of success that has been a barrier in the past to enjoying non-fiction.

Mrs. Woodburn Warner Arts Magnet Elementary School Grades PreK-2

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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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Nashville, TN 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

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
LL715 - Level E Nonfiction Extra Book Set - Gr. 1 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $35.00 1 $35.00
LL719 - Level I Nonfiction Extra Book Set - Gr. 1 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $35.00 1 $35.00
LL711 - Level A Nonfiction Extra Book Set - K • Lakeshore Learning Materials $34.00 1 $34.00
LL716 - Level F Nonfiction Extra Book Set - Gr. 1 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $34.00 1 $34.00
LL717 - Level G Nonfiction Extra Book Set - Gr. 1 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $31.00 1 $31.00
LL718 - Level H Nonfiction Extra Book Set - Gr. 1 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.00 1 $29.00
LL721 - Level J Nonfiction Extra Book Set - Gr. 1-2 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $28.00 1 $28.00
LL714 - Level D Nonfiction Extra Book Set - K-Gr. 1 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $28.00 1 $28.00
LL712 - Level B Nonfiction Extra Book Set - K • Lakeshore Learning Materials $27.00 1 $27.00
LL713 - Level C Nonfiction Extra Book Set - K • Lakeshore Learning Materials $24.00 1 $24.00

Materials cost

$305.00

Vendor shipping charges

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Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.58

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$339.58

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$59.93

Total project goal

$399.51

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $399.51

3 Donors

-$210.00

Donations toward project cost

-$178.50

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$31.50

match offer

-$189.51

Match offer toward project cost

-$161.08

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$28.43

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 $0.00

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