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Mrs. Overway from Muskegon, MI is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Engaging Minds Through Nonfiction Texts

My students need various nonfiction texts to improve their ability to navigate and synthesize new information.

  • $866 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

It is my goal to get my students the best resources available. This year, a large portion of instruction centers around nonfiction reading and writing. My hope is that by the end of the year my students will crave nonfiction texts and information that will get them engaged and eager for new learning.

My school community is amazing!

We are very student-focused and we have created a culture that fosters hard work and engagement. My students are hungry for engaging experiences and they take incredible pride in their school and their success. It is exciting watching them grow, question, and encourage one another.

My Project

With these nonfiction texts in my classroom, students will be able to dig deeper into topics that are highly interesting to each individual, and they will begin to understand text structures that will improve their comprehension. These engaging texts will help students foster their passion for a topic, gain more knowledge to build on what they already know, and provide opportunities to share what they have learned in collaborative learning groups.

This project and its resources will allow my students so many more opportunities to grow their understanding and love of nonfiction reading.

Your donations will help to pave the way into a deeper understanding and purposeful collaboration around nonfiction; a genre that will dominate their academic reading life.

Mrs. Overway
Grades 3-5
    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

    This project will reach 60 students.

    15 donors have given to this project.

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit • Amazon Business $6.99 9 $62.91
The War that Saved My Life • Amazon Business $10.36 5 $51.80
Orphan Train Rider: One Boy's True Story • Amazon Business $8.52 5 $42.60
Inside Out and Back Again • Amazon Business $7.99 5 $39.95
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Young Reader's Choice Award - Intermediate Division) • Amazon Business $5.90 5 $29.50
Ick! Yuck! Eew!: Our Gross American History • Amazon Business $29.27 1 $29.27
Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicine: The Definitive Home Reference Guide to 550 Key Herbs with all their Uses as Remedies for Common Ailments • Amazon Business $23.60 1 $23.60
The New Way Things Work • Amazon Business $20.59 1 $20.59
The Science Book: Everything You Need to Know About the World and How It Works • Amazon Business $16.63 1 $16.63
V is for Volunteer: A Tennessee Alphabet (Discover America State by State) • Amazon Business $16.11 1 $16.11
Face-Off: Top 10 Lists of Everything in Hockey (Sports Illustrated Kids) • Amazon Business $15.43 1 $15.43
How to Build a Car: A high-speed adventure of mechanics, teamwork, and friendship (Technical Tales) • Amazon Business $14.95 1 $14.95
DK Eyewitness Books: Car • Amazon Business $14.69 1 $14.69
Kid's Herb Book, A: For Children of All Ages • Amazon Business $14.09 1 $14.09
Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be • Amazon Business $13.68 1 $13.68
Mega Machine Record Breakers • Amazon Business $13.25 1 $13.25
Poop Happened!: A History of the World from the Bottom Up • Amazon Business $12.86 1 $12.86
The Kids Book of World Religions • Amazon Business $12.19 1 $12.19
Basic Physics: A Self-Teaching Guide • Amazon Business $12.11 1 $12.11
The Cartoon Guide to Physics (Cartoon Guide Series) • Amazon Business $11.53 1 $11.53
What Do You Do With an Idea? • Amazon Business $11.52 1 $11.52
Hana's Suitcase - A True Story • Amazon Business $10.95 1 $10.95
National Geographic Kids Everything Volcanoes and Earthquakes: Earthshaking photos, facts, and fun! • Amazon Business $10.63 1 $10.63
DK Eyewitness Books: Ancient Greece • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
You Wouldn't Want to Sail With Christopher Columbus!: Uncharted Waters You'd Rather Not Cross • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
Rosie the Riveter: Women Working on the Home Front in World War II • Amazon Business $9.75 1 $9.75
Let It Begin Here!: Lexington & Concord: First Battles of the American Revolution • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
You Wouldn't Want to Be at the Boston Tea Party!: Wharf Water Tea You'd Rather Not Drink • Amazon Business $8.98 1 $8.98
The Louisiana Purchase: Would You Close the Deal? (What Would You Do? (Enslow)) • Amazon Business $8.95 1 $8.95
Physics: Why Matter Matters! • Amazon Business $8.62 1 $8.62
Basher Science: Technology: A byte-sized world! • Amazon Business $8.49 1 $8.49
National Geographic Kids World Atlas • Amazon Business $8.46 1 $8.46
Who Was Albert Einstein? • Amazon Business $3.99 2 $7.98
Expanding a Nation: Causes and Effects of the Louisiana Purchase (Cause and Effect) • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95
We Are Witnesses: Five Diaries Of Teenagers Who Died In The Holocaust • Amazon Business $7.88 1 $7.88
The Dreadful, Smelly Colonies: The Disgusting Details About Life in Colonial America (Disgusting History) • Amazon Business $7.50 1 $7.50
Mistakes That Worked • Amazon Business $7.13 1 $7.13
Encounter (Voyager Books) • Amazon Business $7.00 1 $7.00
Let's Talk Swimming (Scholastic News Nonfiction Readers) • Amazon Business $6.95 1 $6.95
Africa (True Books) • Amazon Business $6.95 1 $6.95
Let's Talk Basketball (Scholastic News Nonfiction Readers: Sports Talk) • Amazon Business $6.95 1 $6.95
T is for Touchdown: A Football Alphabet (Sports Alphabet) • Amazon Business $6.47 1 $6.47
Cats (Smithsonian) • Amazon Business $6.39 1 $6.39
Z is for Zamboni: A Hockey Alphabet (Sports Alphabet) • Amazon Business $6.06 1 $6.06
TIME For Kids Book of Why: Amazing Sports and Science • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
America in World War II: A History Just for Kids! • Amazon Business $4.94 1 $4.94
Who Was Christopher Columbus? • Amazon Business $4.62 1 $4.62
Who Was Walt Disney? • Amazon Business $4.53 1 $4.53
Moonwalk: The First Trip to the Moon (Step-Into-Reading, Step 5) • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Wild Cats (Step into Reading) • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99

Materials cost

$695.29

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$10.43

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$735.72

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$129.83

Total project goal

$865.55

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $865.55

13 Donors

-$485.55

Donations toward project cost

-$412.72

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$72.83

match offer

-$380.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$323.00

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$57.00

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