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Ms. Kleven from Lake Tapps, WA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Third Grade Read Aloud Books

Help me give my students read aloud stories to build their love of learning and comprehension!

  • $301 goal

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My Students

I teach 21 amazing kids in Dieringer School District. They are the kids whose year was cut short by COVID, followed by a year of uncertainty while learning online, but you wouldn't know it to see them in the classroom. My students are creative and thoughtful third graders! They come to school each day ready to try new things and ready to learn!

They are truly an incredible group, and I am so lucky and thankful to teach this group of learners that are excited and ready to learn!

My Project

In our classroom, we use weekly read alouds to practice the reading strategy and comprehension skill of the week. Reading aloud to students allows them to listen to a fluent reader, thus building their listening vocabulary.

It is my hope that using read alouds will help struggling readers access the comprehension strategy by providing them an opportunity to practice their skills with an oral story and not be dependent on their current independent reading level.

If we want kids to be good readers, we must help them fall in love with reading

One of the greatest ways is to read aloud great books.

Ms. Kleven Lake Tapps Elementary School Grades 3-5

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Lake Tapps, WA View local requests 22 students impacted 3donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
The House That Jane Built: A Story About Jane Addams • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
Two Bad Ants • Amazon Business $16.95 1 $16.95
Turkey Bowl • Amazon Business $16.79 1 $16.79
The Carpenter's Gift: A Christmas Tale about the Rockefeller Center Tree • Amazon Business $16.49 1 $16.49
Pecos Bill Invents the Ten-Gallon Hat • Amazon Business $16.41 1 $16.41
When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson • Amazon Business $15.89 1 $15.89
Thank You, Mr. Falker • Amazon Business $12.29 1 $12.29
I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Humphrey the Lost Whale: A True Story • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
On a Beam of Light: A Story of Albert Einstein (Albert Einstein Book for Kids, Books About Scientists for Kids, Biographies for Kids, Kids Science Books) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother (Aladdin Picture Books) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree: An Appalachian Story (Picture Puffin Books) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Ruby's Wish • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
The Polar Bear Son: An Inuit Tale • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
What Really Happened to Humpty? (Nursery-Rhyme Mysteries) • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95
I Wonder Why Penguins Can't Fly: And Other Questions About Polar Lands • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Seven Spools of Thread: A Kwanzaa Story (Albert Whitman Prairie Paperback) • Amazon Business $6.01 1 $6.01

Materials cost

$204.64

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $17.91

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.07

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$255.62

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$45.11

Total project goal

$300.73

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $300.73

2 Donors

-$289.55

Donations toward project cost

-$247.12

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$42.43

match offer

-$10.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$8.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$1.50

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$1.18

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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