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Mrs. Fiore Cardillo from Brooklyn, NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Successful Reading Program On The Verge Of Extinction

My students need 61 books for our classroom library.

  • $740 goal

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Many of us take our enjoyment of reading for granted. But, the reality is the average student in my classroom does not enjoy reading. If asked, most of my students will say they hate reading. I work in a large title 1 school, where a significant percentage of students live in poverty. Most living in generational poverty, meaning their family has lived in poverty for more than two generations. Before my students are even born, they are already so far behind. One place my students lack is in basic reading skills. This is most prevalently shown in their hatred of reading. With their hatred of reading comes reading scores averaging two years below grade level. Their hatred of reading and low reading scores are direct results of generational poverty. Few adults in their lives actually own books, and an even sadder number of adults they interact with can read. One way I’ve tried to combat these societal disadvantages is by starting an independent reading program. In the independent reading program, students are given something they have never had before – time set aside for reading in a safe quiet place. Research has shown a positive correlation between the extent a student reads and ability. As my students become stronger readers, they begin to enjoy reading more. When they enjoy reading, they become better readers. Last school year the average student in my classroom advanced one year in ability, with some advancing as many as four years. In order to be ready for college, my students need to be continually working on their reading skills and comprehension. Continually working to close the undeserving gaps of generational poverty. I provide for the safe quiet environment to read, but providing students with books is where you can help. Right now my classroom library has about 60 books. I am expecting to have about 80 students next year. Eighty students reading six books each means my library should have over 200 books. Without a considerable amount of new books, my independent reading program will die. This is very upsetting to me. The death of the program does not upset me. I’m upset by my students having to continue to suffer from the consequences of generational poverty.

Mrs. Fiore Cardillo Abraham Lincoln High School Grades 9-12

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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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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Define "Normal": A Novel Julie Anne Peters • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
Kim: Empty Inside: The Diary of an Anonymous Teenager Beatrice Sparks • Barnes and Noble $5.39 1 $5.39
An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography Paul Rusesabagina, Tom Zoellner • Barnes and Noble $11.20 1 $11.20
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda Philip Gourevitch • Barnes and Noble $12.00 1 $12.00
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Ishmael Beah • Barnes and Noble $9.60 1 $9.60
If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me up and Ship Me Home Tim O'Brien, Luke Dempsey (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $11.16 1 $11.16
Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995 Joe Sacco, Christopher Hitchens (Introduction) • Barnes and Noble $17.95 1 $17.95
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return Marjane Satrapi • Barnes and Noble $10.36 1 $10.36
Hero Perry Moore • Barnes and Noble $8.09 1 $8.09
The Complete Persepolis: Now a Major Motion Picture Marjane Satrapi • Barnes and Noble $19.96 1 $19.96
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood Marjane Satrapi • Barnes and Noble $10.36 1 $10.36
Romeo and Juliet (No Fear Shakespeare Graphic Novels) SparkNotes Editors, William Shakespeare, Matt Wiegle (Illustrator), Adapted by Matt Wiegle • Barnes and Noble $8.95 1 $8.95
Smack Melvin Burgess • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
Mississippi Trial 1955 Chris Crowe • Barnes and Noble $5.39 1 $5.39
Girl in Blue Ann Rinaldi • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Sunrise over Fallujah Walter Dean Myers • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
Schindler's List Thomas Keneally • Barnes and Noble $5.98 1 $5.98
Fallen Angels Walter Dean Myers • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Native Son Richard Wright, Arnold Rampersad (Introduction) • Barnes and Noble $11.96 1 $11.96
I Can't Tell You Hillary Frank • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
Shooter Walter Dean Myers • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
After Tupac and D Foster Jacqueline Woodson • Barnes and Noble $12.79 1 $12.79
Be More Chill Ned Vizzini • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
Knights of the Hill Country Tim Tharp • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Soldier's Heart: Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Volunteers Gary Paulsen • Barnes and Noble $5.85 1 $5.85
Boy Meets Boy David Levithan • Barnes and Noble $8.05 1 $8.05
Slam! Walter Dean Myers • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie David Lubar • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
Code Talker: A Novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two Joseph Bruchac • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
Twisted Laurie Halse Anderson • Barnes and Noble $8.99 1 $8.99
Peak Roland Smith • Barnes and Noble $6.25 1 $6.25
Cracked up to Be Courtney Summers • Barnes and Noble $8.95 1 $8.95
Breathing Underwater Alex Flinn • Barnes and Noble $8.09 1 $8.09
Don't Die, My Love Lurlene McDaniel • Barnes and Noble $5.39 1 $5.39
Forged by Fire Sharon M. Draper • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
You Don't Know Me David Klass • Barnes and Noble $8.09 1 $8.09
Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie Jordan Sonnenblick • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Tears of a Tiger Sharon M. Draper • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Pretties Scott Westerfeld • Barnes and Noble $8.09 1 $8.09
Glass Ellen Hopkins • Barnes and Noble $8.99 1 $8.99
Before I Die Jenny Downham • Barnes and Noble $12.79 1 $12.79
That Was Then, This Is Now S. E. Hinton • Barnes and Noble $8.99 1 $8.99
Glass Ellen Hopkins • Barnes and Noble $14.39 1 $14.39
Go Ask Alice Anonymous • Barnes and Noble $8.99 1 $8.99
Wintergirls Laurie Halse Anderson • Barnes and Noble $14.39 1 $14.39
The Truth about Forever Sarah Dessen • Barnes and Noble $8.09 1 $8.09
The Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky • Barnes and Noble $11.20 1 $11.20
Impulse Ellen Hopkins • Barnes and Noble $8.99 1 $8.99
Crank Ellen Hopkins • Barnes and Noble $8.99 1 $8.99
Uglies Scott Westerfeld, Designed by Rodrigo Corral • Barnes and Noble $8.09 1 $8.09
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Sherman Alexie, Ellen Forney (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $8.09 1 $8.09
Identical Ellen Hopkins • Barnes and Noble $14.39 1 $14.39
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas John Boyne • Barnes and Noble $8.09 1 $8.09
Dreamland Sarah Dessen • Barnes and Noble $8.09 1 $8.09
Once Dead, Twice Shy Kim Harrison • Barnes and Noble $11.04 1 $11.04
The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle, Anne Perry (Afterword) • Barnes and Noble $4.45 1 $4.45
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Barnes & Noble Cla Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel (Illustrator), Tan Lin (Illustrator), Tan Lin (Introduction) • Barnes and Noble $5.35 1 $5.35
The Outsiders SE Hinton • Barnes and Noble $8.00 1 $8.00
Gathering Blue Lois Lowry • Barnes and Noble $6.75 1 $6.75
Speak Laurie Halse Anderson • Barnes and Noble $4.98 1 $4.98
The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien • Barnes and Noble $11.96 1 $11.96

Materials cost

$535.53

Vendor shipping charges

 $53.55

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$8.03

Fulfillment labor & materials

$9.00

Total project cost

$606.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$133.02

Total project goal

$739.02

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $739.02

1 Donor

-$369.02

Donations toward project cost

-$302.60

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$66.42

match offer

-$370.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$303.40

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$66.60

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