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Ms. Norena from New York, NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Did You Know...Nonfiction Books

My students need nonfiction texts for their research.

  • $409 goal

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This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

Did you know that- The Emperor Penguin is the tallest and heaviest of all living penguin species? Nonfiction texts open up a whole new world of reading to kids. My kids need just-right, leveled, and multi-subject nonfiction books. They need them in order to do research, synthesize, and write.

My students are energetic, kind, and motivated children eager to learn.

They attend a high needs school in the Big Apple. This is my eighth year teaching at this school. I teach an average of 30 students each year. When students reach third grade, they have been exposed to nonfiction. It is now that they become more sophisticated nonfiction readers. They develop other skills such as researching, analyzing, synthesizing, and reporting. They use their research to produce written accounts. Reading and writing. Writing and reading. They go side by side.

My Project

My students have expressed their interest in certain nonfiction topics. After having experienced hurricane Sandy firsthand, they live and go to school in an area that was highly impacted; my kids have become very fascinating with natural phenomenon. They would like to study hurricanes, tornadoes, and earthquakes among other topics. During their upcoming nonfiction reading and writing units of study, they will read across various sources (books being the major source of information). They will learn how to navigate through the various features of nonfictions texts, research, question, and paraphrase, synthesize, take notes, and ultimately write a feature article about the topic they selected. Seems like a lot of work for seven and eight year olds, right? My kids are capable of this and much more. They just need one thing right now- the right resources. They need nonfiction books.

The nonfiction books I am asking for will help my kids begin to develop some of the skills that will take them through college and further- research, analyze, question, synthesize, and report among others.

It is never too early to start. Is it?

Ms. Norena
Grades 3-5

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Boy, Were We Wrong About Dinosaurs! • AKJ Books $5.10 3 $15.30
Spiders Gail Gibbons, Gail Gibbons (Illustrator) • AKJ Books $5.80 3 $17.40
Penguins • AKJ Books $5.10 3 $15.30
Why Do Snakes Hiss? • AKJ Books $2.91 3 $8.73
Birds: Nature''s Magnificent Flying Machines • AKJ Books $5.80 3 $17.40
Why Am I a Fish? • AKJ Books $5.83 3 $17.49
Dolphins and Sharks • AKJ Books $4.37 3 $13.11
Polar Bears and the Arctic: A Nonfiction Companion to Polar Bears Past Bedtime • AKJ Books $4.37 3 $13.11
Sharks • AKJ Books $5.10 3 $15.30
Penguins and Antarctica: A Nonfiction Companion to Eve of th • AKJ Books $4.37 3 $13.11
Endangered Leopards (Earths Endangered Animals Series) Bobbi • AKJ Books $5.80 3 $17.40
Face to Face with Lions Beverly Joubert, Dereck Joubert • AKJ Books $5.07 3 $15.21
Lion vs. Tiger • AKJ Books $5.83 3 $17.49
Seals and Sea Lions Bobbie Kalman, John Crossingham • AKJ Books $5.07 3 $15.21
Penguins • AKJ Books $7.67 3 $23.01
Polar Bear Alert Debora Pearson • AKJ Books $2.91 3 $8.73
The Oceans'' Most Amazing Animals • AKJ Books $5.83 3 $17.49
The Polar Regions'' Most Amazing Animals • AKJ Books $5.83 3 $17.49
Lily & Miss Liberty • AKJ Books $2.91 3 $8.73
Field Trip to Niagara Falls (Geronimo Stilton #24) Geronimo • AKJ Books $5.10 5 $25.50

Materials cost

$312.51

Vendor shipping charges

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Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.69

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$347.20

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$61.27

Total project goal

$408.47

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $408.47

1 Donor

-$408.47

Donations toward project cost

-$347.20

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$61.27

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