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My Students
I teach a multi-ability 3rd-grade full inclusion classroom. Students are from a diverse military background. We serve Schriever Air force Base in Colorado as well as a rural community outside of Colorado Springs.
Many of the students have already been enrolled in several schools due to their families permanent change of stationed (PCSd) to the base near us. Being moved from school to school and home to home is a difficult transition. I strive to help my students create a sense of home and self to make their transitions easier.
My Project
These books are mentor texts I will use as a base for a lesson. Students will learn to make connections to books, learn to appreciate different genres, and use a variety of skills needed to understand and analyze reading. I use a combination of reading workshop and the school adopted reading program to meet student needs and differentiate student instruction.
The use of the mentor texts will assist in solidifying concepts often hard for beginning readers to understand. Beginning readers benefit from hearing proficient readers read text aloud fluently. While reading I point out strategies to sound out words and think aloud for students to help their understanding.
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Materials
Cost
Quantity
Total
Two Bad Ants
• Amazon Business
$12.22
1
$12.22
Tornado!: The Story Behind These Twisting, Turning, Spinning, and Spiraling Storms (National Geographic Kids)
• Amazon Business
$11.86
1
$11.86
My Book of Rocks and Minerals
• Amazon Business
$10.45
1
$10.45
The Stranger
• Amazon Business
$10.39
1
$10.39
Stellaluna
• Amazon Business
$9.19
1
$9.19
Bedhead
• Amazon Business
$8.99
1
$8.99
The Honey Makers
• Amazon Business
$7.99
1
$7.99
The Amazing Life of Benjamin Franklin
• Amazon Business
$7.99
1
$7.99
Follow the Drinking Gourd (Dragonfly Books)
• Amazon Business
$7.99
1
$7.99
Marshes & Swamps
• Amazon Business
$7.99
1
$7.99
Roxaboxen
• Amazon Business
$7.85
1
$7.85
Dory Story
• Amazon Business
$7.55
1
$7.55
Everglades
• Amazon Business
$6.99
1
$6.99
Fireflies
• Amazon Business
$6.99
1
$6.99
Crocodiles & Alligators
• Amazon Business
$6.99
1
$6.99
Wolves
• Amazon Business
$6.99
1
$6.99
My Best Book of Bugs (The Best Book of)
• Amazon Business
$6.99
1
$6.99
Smart Kids: Predators: The World's Deadliest Hunters
• Amazon Business
$6.93
1
$6.93
One Tiny Turtle: Read and Wonder
• Amazon Business
$6.79
1
$6.79
. . . If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad
• Amazon Business
$6.60
1
$6.60
Cactus Hotel (Rise and Shine)
• Amazon Business
$6.39
1
$6.39
Tomas and the Library Lady (Dragonfly Books)
• Amazon Business
$6.39
1
$6.39
The Plot Chickens
• Amazon Business
$6.39
1
$6.39
What Makes Day and Night (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2)
• Amazon Business
$5.73
1
$5.73
National Geographic Readers: Titanic
• Amazon Business
$3.99
1
$3.99
National Geographic Readers: Cats vs. Dogs
• Amazon Business
$3.19
1
$3.19
Materials cost
$197.81
Vendor shipping charges
FREE
Sales tax
$12.66
3rd party payment processing fee
$2.97
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$243.44
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$42.96
Total project goal
$286.40
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal
$286.40
-$248.16
Donations toward project cost
-$234.94
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
-$13.22
-$10.00
Match offer toward project cost
-$8.50
Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
-$1.50
Excluded support for DonorsChoose
-$28.24
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