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Mrs. Carrasco from Fountain Vly., CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Engaging Books to Engage Early Readers

Help me give my students engaging books (mentor texts) to make our reading lessons more captivating.

  • $529 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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My Project

One of the authors that I love to introduce my third grade students to, Roald Dahl, once said, "If you're going to get anywhere in life, you have to read a lot of books." This project will help me provide my students with an opportunity to learn not only the skills needed for reading a lot of books, but also to develop and nurture the love of reading a great book.

Students learn best when they are engaged and interested.

These engaging books (mentor texts) will help me grab the attention of my students and teach specific reading skills at the same time. The books that I am requesting showcase a wide variety of characters, themes, and topics. From some classics that I grew up reading to recently published books, each book in this collection will be used to spotlight a specific reading skill in fiction or nonfiction. Great stories stick with us and intertwine with the fabric of who we are. Using great stories to teach reading skills, I hope to make these reading skills second nature to my students and a part of who they are as readers.

Mrs. Carrasco
Grades 3-5

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
When the Wolves Returned: Restoring Nature's Balance in Yellowstone • Amazon Business $19.99 1 $19.99
I, Fly: The Buzz About Flies and How Awesome They Are • Amazon Business $19.99 1 $19.99
Dirty Laundry Pile: Poems in Different Voices • Amazon Business $16.73 1 $16.73
Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 (Richard Jackson Books (Atheneum Hardcover)) • Amazon Business $16.32 1 $16.32
Two Bad Ants • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
If Sharks Disappeared (If Animals Disappeared) • Amazon Business $15.29 1 $15.29
The Most Magnificent Thing • Amazon Business $15.25 1 $15.25
The Thing Lou Couldn't Do • Amazon Business $13.59 1 $13.59
The Stranded Whale • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Enemy Pie : (Reading Rainbow Book, Children’s Book about Kindness, Kids Books about Learning) • Amazon Business $12.29 1 $12.29
The Wretched Stone • Amazon Business $11.39 1 $11.39
A Letter From Your Teacher: On the Last Day of School • Amazon Business $11.02 1 $11.02
A Letter From Your Teacher: On the First Day of School • Amazon Business $10.73 1 $10.73
Earth! My First 4.54 Billion Years (Our Universe, 1) • Amazon Business $10.49 1 $10.49
The Invisible Boy • Amazon Business $10.49 1 $10.49
Spaghetti in a Hot Dog Bun: Having the Courage To Be Who You Are • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Eyewitness Volcano and Earthquake (DK Eyewitness) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
We Don't Eat Our Classmates: A Penelope Rex Book • Amazon Business $9.40 1 $9.40
Give Bees a Chance • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
The Rough-Face Girl • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Spork • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
The Honest-to-Goodness Truth • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Amos & Boris • Amazon Business $8.19 1 $8.19
Fly Away Home • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
The Big Orange Splot • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
I (Don't) Like Snakes (Read and Wonder) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Bigfoot Cinderrrrrella (Picture Puffin Books) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch (paperback) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
A Day's Work • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster • Amazon Business $7.69 1 $7.69
My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother (Aladdin Picture Books) • Amazon Business $7.64 1 $7.64
The Name Jar • Amazon Business $7.10 1 $7.10
Olivia • Amazon Business $7.01 1 $7.01
The Paper Bag Princess (Classic Munsch) • Amazon Business $6.95 1 $6.95
The Three Little Pigs (Reading Railroad Books) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99

Materials cost

$375.40

Vendor shipping charges

 $3.99

Sales tax

 $34.35

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.63

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$449.37

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$79.30

Total project goal

$528.67

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $528.67

10 Donors

-$408.67

Donations toward project cost

-$347.37

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$61.30

match offer

-$120.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$102.00

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$18.00

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