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Ms. Joyner from Chicago, IL is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Today a Reader, Tomorrow a Leader

Help me give my students sight word leveled readers for small group instruction.

  • $225 goal

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My Project

Today a Reader, Tomorrow a Leader is a very important project for my classroom. For many of our students this year, kindergarten was their first school experience. Many started the year without recognizing letters or letter sounds.

Our students are making great progress this year academically, and we are beyond proud of their growth.

With many of our student recognizing all of their letters, letter sounds and over thirty high frequency words they are now starting to read.

As teachers, it is very important that we have a variety of leveled readers for students to read independently and small group instruction leveled readers we can use during instruction time. These books will be used daily to help increase our students literacy skills.

Ms. Joyner Sherman Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Chicago, IL View local requests

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

HBCU Alum 30 students impacted 4donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Let's Find Out: My Rebus Readers (Multiple Copy Set) - Box 1 • Scholastic Magazines and Book Clubs $99.00 1 $99.00
TT235 - Lakeshore Fiction Sight-Word Readers - Level 1 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 1 $49.99

Materials cost

$148.99

Vendor shipping charges

 $9.90

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.23

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$191.12

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$33.73

Total project goal

$224.85

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $224.85

3 Donors

-$111.98

Donations toward project cost

-$95.93

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$16.05

match offer

-$111.99

Match offer toward project cost

-$95.19

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$16.80

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.88

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 $0.00

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