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Mrs. Martino from Brooklyn, NY is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Reading Materials for Special Education!

My students need a bean bag chair to provide a comfortable place for reading and a word work activity center, a book, and reading skills activity materials for differentiated ELA centers.

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My Students

My students have many different challenges that affect their day-to-day life. My goal, as a teacher, is to provide them with the guidance they need in order to succeed both in and out of the classroom. Reading is a fundamental skill that I hope to instill in my students.

My students have emotional disabilities.

I am the teacher of a 12:1:1 (students:teacher:paraprofessional) class of 4th grade students. We are located in a high-poverty area of Brooklyn. Our school provides a lot of support to us, but unfortunately we are one of thirteen sites, and we are not allotted any funding for materials. My students deal with difficult situations both in and out of the classroom on a daily basis. Most of the students in my class deal with issues at home that make learning in school extremely hard. It is my goal to do everything I can to make learning easy and fun for my students. I know that coming to school is sometimes the only sense of consistency my students have and I do everything I can to maintain this while they are at school.

My Project

I want to create an environment that promotes reading in the classroom. Many of my students struggle academically because of the emotional disabilities that they have. In my fourth grade classroom, I have students that are on first and second grade reading levels and I want to try to improve this by the end of the school year. By creating an optimum reading environment, my goal is that my students will be more excited to read and therefore will improve their reading level. By incorporating a word work activity center, a book, reading skills activities, and other exciting, new materials for reading centers and a new bean bag seat, I want my students to feel eager to come to school and read every day.

Reading is a lifelong skill that I want my students to get started on learning today!

Reading will not only help my students while they are in school, but it is something that they can take with them for the rest of their lives, and will help them in the job force. It is an unfortunate reality, but many students with emotional disabilities will not feel that they are able to go to college or get a job, and I want them to know this is possible. Reading will help them attain this.

Mrs. Martino PS 369 @ PS5 Grades 3-5

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

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More than three‑quarters 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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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
LL925X - Teaching Reading Skills Activity Centers - Complete Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $139.00 1 $139.00
CK30BU - Big Beanbag Seat - Blue • Lakeshore Learning Materials $69.99 1 $69.99
FF422 - Word Work Activity Stations • Lakeshore Learning Materials $69.99 1 $69.99
TT864 - Ticket to Exit Instant Assessment Cards - Gr. 3 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99

Materials cost

$308.97

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.63

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$343.60

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$60.64

Total project goal

$404.24

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $404.24

3 Donors

-$354.24

Donations toward project cost

-$301.10

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$53.14

match offer

-$50.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$42.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$7.50

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 $0.00

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