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Ms. Sinagra from Brooklyn, NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Readers Grow Into Leaders

My students need non-fiction texts that will provide them with rich and diverse perspectives to grow from readers into leaders.

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My Students

My fourth graders are incredible, engaged and thoughtful little beings who are fueled by an insatiable sense of wonder and a persistent desire to invite, develop, and make sense of their relationship with the world around them. My classroom is made up of students from diverse backgrounds, whose life experiences and perspectives play an important role in shaping our classroom community.

My students deserve the opportunity to be exposed to and have ownership over a rich and diverse non-fiction classroom library.

With a diverse set of texts in their hands, their ability to collect and summarize facts will grow into a practice of questioning, synthesizing, and analyzing the information that is being presented to them. These text sets will inspire topics for our whole class discussions, partner work, and individual research projects.

Fourth graders who question what they read as they hold opposing view points in their minds and then develop their own interpretations and ideas = YOU MAKING THE FUTURE BRIGHTER THAN EVER!

My Project

Non-fiction texts that present multiple perspectives and are written in such a way that readers are invited to interact with the content. These texts will provide students with opportunities to question the information being presented, delve into further research, synthesize content, and grow new ideas. This work and new thinking will come to fruition during whole class conversations, debates, research clubs, and individual research projects.

With these new ideas and view points, my students will have a deeper understanding of the world that surrounds them, the world that existed before them, that exists now, and that will exist in the future.

Ms. Sinagra PS 139 Alexine A Fenty 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.

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Brooklyn, NY 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

31 students impacted 2donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Zombie Makers: True Stories of Nature's Undead (Exceptional Science Titles for Intermediate Grades) (Junior Library Guild Selection) • Amazon Business $30.60 1 $30.60
When Lunch Fights Back: Wickedly Clever Animal Defenses • Amazon Business $29.00 1 $29.00
Alien Deep: Revealing the Mysterious Living World at the Bottom of the Ocean (National Geographic Kids) • Amazon Business $10.31 2 $20.62
The Split History of World War II: A Perspectives Flip Book (Perspectives Flip Books) • Amazon Business $6.81 2 $13.62
Liberty!: How the Revolutionary War Began (Landmark Books) • Amazon Business $6.74 2 $13.48
The Split History of the American Revolution: A Perspectives Flip Book (Perspectives Flip Books) • Amazon Business $6.20 2 $12.40
The Split History of the Women's Suffrage Movement: A Perspectives Flip Book (Perspectives Flip Books) • Amazon Business $8.95 1 $8.95
The Split History of World War I: A Perspectives Flip Book (Perspectives Flip Books) • Amazon Business $8.95 1 $8.95
The Split History of the Battle of Gettysburg: A Perspectives Flip Book (Perspectives Flip Books) • Amazon Business $8.95 1 $8.95
The Split History of Westward Expansion in the United States: A Perspectives Flip Book (Perspectives Flip Books) • Amazon Business $8.94 1 $8.94
The Split History of the Civil War: A Perspectives Flip Book (Perspectives Flip Books) • Amazon Business $6.26 1 $6.26
The Split History of the Civil Rights Movement: A Perspectives Flip Book (Perspectives Flip Books) • Amazon Business $5.67 1 $5.67

Materials cost

$167.44

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.51

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$199.95

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$35.29

Total project goal

$235.24

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $235.24

1 Donor

-$99.98

Donations toward project cost

-$99.98

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$0.00

match offer

-$117.61

Match offer toward project cost

-$99.97

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$17.64

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$17.64

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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