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Mrs. Lux from Roebuck, SC is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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The Big Picture: Children's Books Teach High School Literacy

My students need 27 children's book, such as "Miss Rumphius" and "Punctuation Takes a Vacation", and two rolling carts to help them learn various story and writing elements.

  • $329 goal

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My Students

Can you explain to me what a metaphor is? Symbol? Theme? Irony? Adjective? Interjection? My students are expected not only to identify examples of these terms but also to explain why a writer is using them. For students who find long stories and novels daunting, children's books are more accessible.

In a given year, I teach anywhere from 30 to 90 9th grade students who read at or below the 6th grade level.

Within my school of 800 9th graders, typically one-third or more of the students do not read on grade-level. These are students likely to drop out of high school and will rarely go on to get their GED and/or continue on to get any form of post-secondary education. These students struggle to grasp the English language, even though many of them speak it from day to day. They are unable to discover the rich world around them because they do not understand the figurative language, ironies, and playful nature of language that is evident in everything they do. In a nation where the type of job one gets is based on ones highest level of education, we need to give these young men and women the best advantages possible. The best way to do that is to build on their reading skills.

My Project

The children's books I have chosen on this list are colorful, playful, and varying in reading level. They can be used to teach symbols and theme and character and conflict in a quick and easy fashion as a lead in to literature from the students' textbooks. They can be used as lead-ins to individual writing assignments during which they create their own versions of fairy tales (note the variations on Rapunzel and Cinderella included below). They can help provide a foundation for learning different sentence structures once the students can easily identify the parts of speech.

Who knew children's books could be so rich and diverse that we would long to use them even at the high school level.

These books will grab the attention of the students and provide countless mini-lesson opportunities to build on highly needed strategies.

Mrs. Lux Dorman High - Freshman Campus Grades 9-12

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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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
Quick As a Cricket Audrey Wood, Don Wood (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $6.83 1 $6.83
Keeping Quilt Patricia Polacco, Patricia Polacco (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $5.97 1 $5.97
Miss Rumphius Barbara Cooney, Barbara Cooney (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $6.83 1 $6.83
The Absolutely Awful Alphabet Mordicai Gerstein, Mordicai Gerstein (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $5.98 1 $5.98
Eight Ate: A Feast of Homonym Riddles Marvin Terban, Giulio Maestro (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $5.93 1 $5.93
Go Hang a Salami! I'm a Lasagna Hog!: And Other Palindromes Jon Agee, Jon Agee (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $7.26 1 $7.26
A Chocolate Moose For Dinner Fred Gwynne, Fred Gwynne (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $2.26 1 $2.26
The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest Lynne Cherry, Deborah Halverson (Editor) • AKJ BOOKS $6.83 1 $6.83
A Mink, a Fink, a Skating Rink: What Is a Noun? Brian P. Cleary, Jenya Prosmitsky (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $3.15 1 $3.15
To Root, to Toot, to Parachute: What Is a Verb? Brian P. Cleary, Jenya Prosmitsky (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $5.93 1 $5.93
I and You and Don't Forget Who: What Is a Pronoun? Brian P. Cleary, Brian Gable (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $5.93 1 $5.93
Hairy, Scary, Ordinary: What Is an Adjective? Brian P. Cleary, Jenya Prosmitsky (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $5.93 1 $5.93
Dearly, Nearly, Insincerely: What is an Adverb? Brian P. Cleary, Brian Gable (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $5.93 1 $5.93
Punctuation Takes a Vacation Robin Pulver, Lynn Rowe Reed (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $5.93 1 $5.93
Under, Over, By the Clover: What Is a Preposition? Brian P. Cleary, Brian Gable (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $5.93 1 $5.93
Things That Are Most in the World Judi Barrett, John Nickle (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $5.97 1 $5.97
Fantastic! Wow! and Unreal!: A Book about Interjections and Conjunctions Ruth Heller, Ruth Heller (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $5.97 1 $5.97
Home Place Crescent Dragonwagon, Jerry Pinkney (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $6.83 1 $6.83
Uncle Sam and Old Glory Delno C. West, Jean M. West, Christopher Manson (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $14.61 1 $14.61
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day Judith Viorst, Ray Cruz (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $6.83 1 $6.83
Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak, Maurice Sendak (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $7.64 1 $7.64
Cindy Ellen: A Wild Western Cinderella Susan Lowell, Jane Manning (Illustrator), Jane K. Manning (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $5.97 1 $5.97
Gift of the Crocodile: A Cinderella Story Judy Sierra, Reynold Ruffins (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $14.57 1 $14.57
Princess Furball Charlotte Huck, Anita Lobel (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $5.97 1 $5.97
Rapunzel Rachel Isadora, Rachel Isadora (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $13.79 1 $13.79
Rapunzel Brothers Grimm, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Dorothee Duntze (Illustrator), Anthea Bell (Translator) • AKJ BOOKS $6.79 1 $6.79
Tangled (Disney Tangled Series) RH Disney • AKJ BOOKS $1.81 1 $1.81
FILE STORAGE CART LEGAL SCHOOL SMART • ABC School Supply, Inc $18.99 2 $37.98

Materials cost

$221.35

Vendor shipping charges

 $3.80

Sales tax

 $15.61

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.32

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$279.08

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$49.25

Total project goal

$328.33

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $328.33

3 Donors

-$164.18

Donations toward project cost

-$139.55

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$24.63

match offer

-$164.15

Match offer toward project cost

-$139.53

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$24.62

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