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Mrs. Cravatt from Pensacola, FL is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Books with a Hook!

My students need mentor texts in the classroom so students will have access to rich literature throughout the school year. These mentor texts will reinforce character building, reading strategies, and writing skills.

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My Students

"This is the best day ever!" These are the words I often hear from my first graders when I read them a story from a picture book and have an engaging lesson that involves reading and writing. Witnessing the joy my first grade students experience from books is thrilling as a teacher.

Since our school is mainly composed of military students, my class is full of a diverse group of children with a wide range of abilities and needs.

They come from a variety of backgrounds, which means they come with a varying amount of background knowledge. Through all of the struggles that my students are faced with, they still come to school excited to learn. It is my job as their teacher to keep them excited about learning. I want to give my students the knowledge they need to succeed in and out of the classroom.

My Project

A picture book to begin a writing lesson or character building lesson? Of course! I have found that through the use of reading aloud mentor texts to my students, they are able to draw on their background knowledge and real-life situations. Mentor texts will be used to introduce a variety of character traits such as respect responsibility, friendship, bullying, and many more. I also have found that using picture books to introduce a reading concept or writing skill can be equally as useful. Mentor texts help introduce reading and writing strategies such as making predictions, inferring character traits and struggles, discussing how characters change throughout the text, finding the main idea, forming ideas, organizing text, etc. Students will independently apply the concepts learned.

Mrs. Cravatt Hellen Caro Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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Pensacola, FL View local requests

More than a third 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

18 students impacted 8donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Hard-Times Jar • Amazon Business $15.79 1 $15.79
When Sophie's Feelings Are Really, Really Hurt • Amazon Business $14.49 1 $14.49
A Pig Parade Is a Terrible Idea • Amazon Business $13.89 1 $13.89
Memoirs of an Elf • Amazon Business $13.75 1 $13.75
Red: A Crayon's Story • Amazon Business $13.64 1 $13.64
The Boy Who Wouldn't Share • Amazon Business $13.43 1 $13.43
What Do You Do With a Problem? • Amazon Business $12.80 1 $12.80
Memoirs of a Parrot • Amazon Business $12.80 1 $12.80
The Night I Followed the Dog • Amazon Business $12.73 1 $12.73
Elmer (Elmer Books) • Amazon Business $12.73 1 $12.73
Howard B. Wigglebottom Learns We Can All Get Along • Amazon Business $12.46 1 $12.46
The Word Collector • Amazon Business $12.37 1 $12.37
Hey, Little Ant • Amazon Business $12.17 1 $12.17
The Perfect Pet • Amazon Business $6.07 2 $12.14
Dragons Love Tacos • Amazon Business $12.09 1 $12.09
Memoirs of a Goldfish • Amazon Business $12.06 1 $12.06
Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse • Amazon Business $11.95 1 $11.95
Lacey Walker, Nonstop Talker (Little Boost) • Amazon Business $11.41 1 $11.41
Memoirs of a Hamster • Amazon Business $11.22 1 $11.22
Enemy Pie (Reading Rainbow book) • Amazon Business $11.02 1 $11.02
One • Amazon Business $10.67 1 $10.67
I Wanna Iguana • Amazon Business $10.61 1 $10.61
Amazing Grace (Reading Rainbow Books) • Amazon Business $10.54 1 $10.54
Come On, Rain! • Amazon Business $10.49 1 $10.49
The Selfish Crocodile • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
The Best Story • Amazon Business $9.45 1 $9.45
Ralph Tells a Story • Amazon Business $9.38 1 $9.38
The Juice Box Bully: Empowering Kids to Stand Up for Others • Amazon Business $8.07 1 $8.07
Bedhead • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
A Bad Case of Tattle Tongue • Amazon Business $7.77 1 $7.77
"Let's Get a Pup!" Said Kate • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
The Storm Book • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
The Relatives Came • Amazon Business $6.94 1 $6.94
A Chair for My Mother 25th Anniversary Edition (Reading Rainbow Books) • Amazon Business $6.61 1 $6.61
Roller Coaster • Amazon Business $6.29 1 $6.29
We the Kids: The Preamble to the Constitution of the United States • Amazon Business $6.24 1 $6.24
Spaghetti in a Hot Dog Bun: Having the Courage To Be Who You Are • Amazon Business $6.15 1 $6.15
Scaredy Squirrel • Amazon Business $6.00 1 $6.00
My Lucky Day • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Previously • Amazon Business $4.93 1 $4.93
Fireflies • Amazon Business $4.15 1 $4.15

Materials cost

$417.18

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.26

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$453.44

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$80.02

Total project goal

$533.46

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $533.46

7 Donors

-$408.46

Donations toward project cost

-$347.19

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$61.27

match offer

-$125.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$106.25

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$18.75

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