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Mrs. Long from San Jose CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Biography Build!

My students need high-interest non-fiction biographies to enhance their non-fiction learning.

  • $176 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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My Students

Our school is in San Jose. I have been teaching at LES for 17 years and love the population of our students. We have a very diverse population and my language arts instruction is for students at many levels and abilities. In our district, reading instruction has focused largely on fiction literature.

Recently, with the introduction of Common Core, we have been introducing more and more non-fiction.

I have a few of the "Who Was?" books in my classroom library and am finding that the students LOVE them. Even my reluctant readers ask for more books in this series! If I had the whole set, I could do so much more with biography and non-fiction. The non-fiction book set I am asking for in this project will benefit students in my language arts classes for many years to come.

My Project

Our 5th-grade class is in need of some high-interest, easy readability biographies to enhance our non-fiction work. I would like a variety of choices for my students to be able to pick a person of interest to them for study and research. The "Who Was?" series provides all that.

Working with biographies allows students to see many people who have overcome difficulties, persevered in the face of failure, and have achieved goals.

The "Who Was?" biography series includes people to study from many different cultures and backgrounds so my students can learn about role models from all walks of life.

Mrs. Long
Grades 3-5

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Who Was? Nonfiction (24 Bk Set) • AKJ Education $107.57 1 $107.57

Materials cost

$107.57

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $9.84

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.61

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$149.02

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$26.30

Total project goal

$175.32

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $175.32

1 Donor

-$175.32

Donations toward project cost

-$149.02

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$26.30

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 $0.00

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