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Ms. Chu from New York, NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Soaring Higher & Higher in Reading!

Help me give my students a variety of higher level books for them to choose from for independent reading so they're motivated to become better readers.

  • $287 goal

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My Students

I am a second grade special education teacher teaching in a low-income neighborhood. My students are composed of new immigrants from China and families with low-income. Families in this community rely heavily on schools to help care for their children while they work long hours to make ends meet. These children depend on schools for their essential needs such as health and food.

Moreover, my students have special needs, compounded with this pandemic, it leads to a more difficult and frustrating situation when the students come back to school.

My Project

I would like to add more higher leveled books of different genres such as chapter, folktale, nonfiction, and character series books to our library that will inspire my students to read more widely during independent reading time. These books will offer many more choices for my students to discover their interests and explore the world while strengthening their literacy skills.

As you know, these are the crucial years of a child’s life when they are learning important literacy skills that will serve as the building blocks of their academic life.

We need to offer options to our students to sustain their interest in reading. If schools lack books, a very basic need for all students, then how can our children improve and grow. How can they love reading? Moreover, most of my students are still learning English; these books will help them get accustomed to the English Language that will improve their English skills.

Ms. Chu PS 2 Meyer London Grades PreK-2

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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

22 students impacted 2donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Uncle Jed's Barbershop • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Buttons for General Washington • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
The Magic Finger • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Surprising Sharks • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
The Flying Beaver Brothers and the Mud-Slinging Moles • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Imani's Moon • AKJ Education $5.80 1 $5.80
The Name Jar • AKJ Education $5.59 1 $5.59
The Chocolate Touch • AKJ Education $5.59 1 $5.59
Next Spring an Oriole • AKJ Education $5.39 1 $5.39
Zack Files 18: How I Fixed the Year 1000 Problem • AKJ Education $5.39 1 $5.39
Amber Brown Is Feeling Blue • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
My Father's Dragon • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Mice and Beans • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Gooney Bird Greene • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
How to Be Cool in the Third Grade • AKJ Education $4.49 1 $4.49
Freak Out! • AKJ Education $4.49 1 $4.49
Horrible Harry and the Holidaze • AKJ Education $4.49 1 $4.49
More Stories Huey Tells • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Gooney the Fabulous • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Capital Mysteries #06 Fireworks at the FBI? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Ballpark Mysteries #3: The L.A. Dodger • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Ballpark Mysteries #7: The San Francisco Splash • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Julian, Dream Doctor • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
AZ Mysteries The bald bandit • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Julian's Glorious Summer • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Soupy Saturdays with the Pain and the Great One • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Shoeshine Girl • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
AZ Mysteries Absent Author • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Amber Brown Is Not A Crayon • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Blackberries in the Dark • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
The Skirt • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
A to Z Mysteries: The Talking T. Rex • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Magic Tree House #24: Earthquake in the Early Morning • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Magic Tree House #3: Mummies in the Morning • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Ivy and Bean Book 1 Book 1 • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Magic Tree House #4: Pirates Past Noon • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Fish Face • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
My Name Is Maria Isabel • AKJ Education $4.19 1 $4.19
Freckle Juice • AKJ Education $4.19 1 $4.19
Magic Tree House #1: Dinosaurs Before Dark • AKJ Education $4.18 1 $4.18
The Titanic: Lost and Found Lost...and Found (A Step 3 Book/ Grades 2-3( • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
Junie B. Jones #1: Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64

Materials cost

$204.58

Vendor shipping charges

 $6.00

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.07

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$243.65

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$43.00

Total project goal

$286.65

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $286.65

2 Donors

-$283.12

Donations toward project cost

-$243.65

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$39.47

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$3.53

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