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Ms. Lauterbach from Springfield, MA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Adventures in Nonfiction

My students need multiple copies of nonfiction books like Separate is Never Equal, The Tree Lady and We are the Ship. We also need TIME For Kids.

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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

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

My students struggle with nonfiction and rarely choose nonfiction for their reading. The Common Core, however, requires that students are able to access nonfiction texts with significant text complexity. By the end of this unit, I want my students to love, and feel confident about, nonfiction.

My 27 students come from a city consistently ranked as one with the highest crime rate, highest child poverty rate and highest alcohol abuse rate in the nation.

Nonetheless, I expect excellence and push my students to rise above the difficulty of their lives to be their best, brightest selves. My school was designated, 5 years ago, as one of the lowest achieving in the state. Since that time, we have redesigned ourselves, and with help from the state, new administrators and extensive professional development, we've become one of the top performing schools in the state. In fact, the governor came to our school to award our progress, and we were just named a "School of Distinction" by the United States Department of Education.

My Project

The books that I am requesting are award winning titles that will engage the students. The topics are relevant to their lives and will motivate the students to develop skills for tackling nonfiction. The students will be involved in whole group read aloud books followed by in-depth, student led discussions, following specific protocols, about the text, the text features, and the meanings of the text. Students will work in pairs, in quads and with the whole class as they write about and discuss their ideas based on specific, standards based prompts. Students will also use the books in small guided reading groups and will again strive for deep comprehension as well as strategies for accessing non-fiction. The students will improve their discussion skills, their writing skills, and their knowledge about nonfiction while also learning about social justice, current events and other topics that they find relevant.

My students have no affection for nonfiction (unlike their teacher!) and this is largely due to a lack of engaging books that are relevant to their lives.

These books will bring excitement: issues of social justice, the stories of artists and poets, facts about animals and current events. Not only will the students learn about topics they care about but they will fall in love with the powerful and important genre of nonfiction and thus become lifelong learners.

Ms. Lauterbach Alfred G Zanetti Montessori School Grades 3-5

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.

More about Ms. Lauterbach

Springfield, MA View local requests

More than 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

27 students impacted 24donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
TIME For Kids - 5-6 PRINT Bundle - 24 issues / Minimum of 10 subscriptions • TIME for Kids $4.46 28 $124.88
The Mystery of Darwin's Frog • Amazon Business $16.89 7 $118.23
Parrots Over Puerto Rico (Americas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature. Winner) • Amazon Business $16.09 7 $112.63
28 Days: Moments in Black History that Changed the World • Amazon Business $15.90 7 $111.30
Papa Is a Poet: A Story About Robert Frost • Amazon Business $15.27 7 $106.89
Viva Frida (Morales, Yuyi) • Amazon Business $15.04 7 $105.28
We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball • Amazon Business $14.93 7 $104.51
When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop (Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe Award for New Talent) • Amazon Business $14.68 7 $102.76
That's a Possibility!: A Book About What Might Happen • Amazon Business $13.65 7 $95.55
The Tree Lady: The True Story of How One Tree-Loving Woman Changed a City Forever • Amazon Business $12.64 7 $88.48
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation (Jane Addams Award Book (Awards)) • Amazon Business $12.59 7 $88.13
Nelson Mandela • Amazon Business $11.99 7 $83.93
The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus • Amazon Business $10.99 7 $76.93
Ivan: The Remarkable True Story of the Shopping Mall Gorilla • Amazon Business $11.37 1 $11.37

Materials cost

$1,330.87

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$19.96

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,380.83

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$243.68

Total project goal

$1,624.51

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,624.51

23 Donors

-$1,593.62

Donations toward project cost

-$1,380.83

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$212.79

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$30.89

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 $0.00

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