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Ms. Lord from Philadelphia, PA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Reading is Dynamite

Help me give my students books to read for fun and for enjoyment.

  • $600 goal

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My Project

I am a reading specialist in an urban school. The students that come to me need additional support in order to become good readers. I teach them how to read, but I also try to foster a love of reading, so they will continue to read once they graduate from needed my support.

My class usually has five or six students, so I order books in sets of 7 so that we can all read together.

We read out loud, so that I can check their accuracy and it is more like story telling. Last year my second graders read twenty books this way. I was so proud of them. Sometimes they see me in the hallway and stop to talk about one of the books or something else they liked about the class. My students also write and that is why I need composition books.

I try to get a mix of fiction and nonfiction as well as a variety of topics. Not everybody likes the same thing and it is important to appeal to all taste in reading.

Ms. Lord Paul L Dunbar Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Philadelphia, 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

25 students impacted 2donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Little Red Riding-Hood • Amazon Business $14.99 7 $104.93
FOX IN SOCKS BOOK & • Amazon Business $10.99 7 $76.93
iScholar Grade 1 Primary Composition Notebook, 7.75 x 9.75 Inches, 50 Sheets, Skip Line Ruling, Green Marble (10018) • Amazon Business $6.54 10 $65.40
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day • Amazon Business $7.19 7 $50.33
Dinosaurs: A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House #1: Dinosaurs Before Dark • Amazon Business $6.99 7 $48.93
Knights and Castles: A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House #2: The Knight at Dawn (Magic Tree House (R) Fact Tracker) • Amazon Business $6.99 7 $48.93
Fox in Socks (Beginner Books) • Amazon Business $5.98 7 $41.86
Dinosaurs Before Dark (Magic Tree House, No. 1) • Amazon Business $3.80 7 $26.60
Ticonderoga Wedge Erasers, Pink, 3 Count • Amazon Business $4.49 2 $8.98

Materials cost

$472.89

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.09

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$509.98

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$90.00

Total project goal

$599.98

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$599.98

1 Donor

-$254.99

Donations toward project cost

-$254.99

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$0.00

match offer

-$299.99

Match offer toward project cost

-$254.99

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$45.00

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$45.00

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$0.00

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