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Mrs. Griffin from Nashville, TN is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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We Need Books to Take Home to Become Daily Readers!

Help me give my students access to real books to read every night!

  • $323 goal

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My Students

My students have a passion for growing friendships and learning all they can! We are a Title I school where the majority of our students participate in free and reduced-rate lunch. We love learning alongside one another!

The students who enter my classroom are already behind their more affluent peers in reading.

We are committed to growing our brains! My kids love exploring and stretching their schema to learn more about the world around them. The students and parents are enthusiastic about learning but do not have the tools (books, writing utensils, etc.) to work on reading and writing outside of school. With a longer school day, longer school year, and strategic planning, my students will make significant gains to leave first grade reading on grade level. I can't wait to see what they will do as they move along their educational journeys!

My Project

The students in my classroom do not always have access to real books at home. We have set a class goal of reading 100 or more books this year and in order to achieve this, we need to be able to read every night at home.

Currently, students are using paper books to practice being responsible and treating books correctly - but they are quickly showing that they are ready to take real books home each night to read.

While many students have a few books here and there at home, these books are not on their level and are not the best for practicing the reading skills they need to become fluent readers.

My students deserve to have access to real, engaging texts that are on their independent reading level. This project will not only help students practice the reading skills they are learning in my classroom on a daily basis, but it will help foster a love of reading that will develop into building good reading habits.

Mrs. Griffin East End Preparatory School Grades PreK-2

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Nashville, TN View local requests

Half 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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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Frog and Toad and Friends Box Set (I Can Read Level 2) • Amazon Business $30.03 1 $30.03
Funny School Stories: Learning to Read Box Set: 5 Fun-Filled Adventures! (I Can Read Level 1) • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Guided Science Readers Parent Pack: Levels E-F: 12 Fun Nonfiction Books That Are Just Right for New Readers • Amazon Business $17.09 1 $17.09
First Little Readers Parent Pack: Guided Reading Levels E & F: 16 Irresistible Books That Are Just the Right Level for Growing Readers • Amazon Business $16.19 1 $16.19
Paddington Collector's Quintet: 5 Fun-Filled Stories in 1 Box! (I Can Read Level 1) • Amazon Business $15.75 1 $15.75
My Favorite Spooky Stories Box Set: 5 Silly, Not-Too-Scary Tales! (I Can Read Level 2) • Amazon Business $15.48 1 $15.48
My Favorite Berenstain Bears Stories: Learning to Read Box Set (I Can Read Level 1) • Amazon Business $15.33 1 $15.33
Danny and the Dinosaur and Friends: Level One Box Set: 8 Favorite I Can Read Books! (I Can Read Level 1) • Amazon Business $15.15 1 $15.15
First Little Comics Parent Pack: Levels E & F: 16 Funny Books That Are Just the Right Level for Growing Readers • Amazon Business $14.27 1 $14.27
My Favorite Dog Stories: Learning to Read Box Set (I Can Read Level 1) • Amazon Business $13.85 1 $13.85
Danny and the Dinosaur: Big Reading Collection: 5 Books Featuring Danny and His Friend the Dinosaur! (I Can Read Level 1) • Amazon Business $11.89 1 $11.89
Pete the Cat's Super Cool Reading Collection (My First I Can Read) • Amazon Business $11.68 1 $11.68
Read with the Peanuts Gang: Time for School, Charlie Brown; Make a Trade, Charlie Brown!; Peppermint Patty Goes to Camp; Lucy Knows Best; Linus Gets Glasses; Snoopy and Woodstock • Amazon Business $10.98 1 $10.98
I Can Read My Favorite Stories, Level 1 • Amazon Business $10.98 1 $10.98
Biscuit's Neighborhood: 5 Fun-Filled Stories in 1 Box! (My First I Can Read) • Amazon Business $10.98 1 $10.98
Amelia Bedelia I Can Read Box Set #2: Books Are a Ball (I Can Read Level 1) • Amazon Business $8.93 1 $8.93

Materials cost

$236.57

Vendor shipping charges

 $3.99

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.55

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$274.11

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$48.37

Total project goal

$322.48

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $322.48

5 Donors

-$300.72

Donations toward project cost

-$257.11

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$43.61

match offer

-$20.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$17.00

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$3.00

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$1.76

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 $0.00

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