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Mrs. Sachs from Timberlake, NC is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Nonfiction Literature Circles

My students need nonfiction texts for guided reading and literature circles. The selected books are not available at my school library or public library.

  • $457 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

Have you ever heard a story and then found out that it was true? How much more interesting did the story become to you at that moment you found out it was true? Please consider reading about my project to increase nonfiction text in my class using interactive read alouds and literature circles.

My students are fifth graders who live in a rural area and love learning about the stories of real people.

So far this year we have read The Story of Ruby Bridges, The Librarian of Basra (a true story of a librarian in Iraq who does her best to save her library), The Man Who Walked Between the Towers (a true story of a man who walked across a tight rope between the world trade center towers when they were constructed), and Two Bobbies (a true story of a dog and cat who help each other survive after Hurricane Katrina). After these read alouds, students applaud the book and actively talk about the stories at lunch and outside of schools. These students are excited for read alouds everyday now and without regards to the illustration on a cover students always ask me if the book we are reading is true. They get very excited if it is. Resources from this project will be shared among the fifth grade team at my school to promote student engagement with nonfiction texts.

My Project

The resources requested by this DonorsChoose project will help support students as they continue to read nonfiction texts. Using nonfiction texts as often as possible is a recommendation made by the new common core curriculum that is being implemented at my school and nationwide. The resources of this project will enable students to begin literature circles with nonfiction texts. I have carefully reviewed and researched the books selected for this project to use as mentor texts for reading nonfiction and of course the longer titles for literature circles. The texts cover a variety of topics from health, African American history, mysteries, and contemporary stories such as Three Cups of Tea: Young Reader's Edition.

Fifth grade is a time when students are really becoming interested in the stories of other people.

Please help support them as they continue on their journey through fifth grade learning about real people and events.

Mrs. Sachs
Grades 3-5
  • Helena Elementary School
  • Timberlake, NC
    • Nearly all 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 125 students.

    9 donors have given to this project.

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Written in Bone • AKJ Books $16.75 1 $16.75
Small Steps • AKJ Books $6.07 4 $24.28
Chew On This • AKJ Books $7.29 4 $29.16
The Omnivore''s Dilemma for Kids • AKJ Books $7.29 4 $29.16
When I Was a Slave • AKJ Books $1.83 4 $7.32
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic • AKJ Books $13.14 3 $39.42
The Scrambled States Of America • AKJ Books $2.25 4 $9.00
The Kidnapped Prince: The Life of Olaudah Equiano Ann Camero • AKJ Books $4.37 4 $17.48
When the Wolves Returned: Restoring Nature''s Balance in Yellowstone • AKJ Books $13.10 1 $13.10
Boys Without Names • AKJ Books $5.10 4 $20.40
Go Free or Die: A Story about Harriet Tubman • AKJ Books $6.53 1 $6.53
Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Fore • AKJ Books $6.56 1 $6.56
The Grand Mosque of Paris • AKJ Books $6.53 1 $6.53
Manfish: A Sory of Jacques Cousteau • AKJ Books $12.40 1 $12.40
An Unlikely Friendship • AKJ Books $5.07 4 $20.28
Unsolvmyst Mary Celeste • AKJ Books $5.83 1 $5.83
Shutting Out the Sky • AKJ Books $14.59 1 $14.59
The Daring Nellie Bly: America''s Star Reporter Bonnie Christ • AKJ Books $5.83 1 $5.83
Sky Boys • AKJ Books $5.83 1 $5.83
Children of the Great Depression • AKJ Books $8.02 1 $8.02
Kids on Strike • AKJ Books $7.26 4 $29.04

Materials cost

$327.51

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $25.55

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.91

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$387.97

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$68.47

Total project goal

$456.44

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $456.44

6 Donors

-$298.00

Donations toward project cost

-$260.80

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$37.20

match offer

-$149.61

Match offer toward project cost

-$127.17

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$22.44

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$8.82

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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