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Mrs. Schmitz from Elko MN is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Mentor Texts to Mentor Young Minds!

My students need mentor texts to improve their comprehensive reading skills.

  • $514 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

I have 22 eager second graders who are ready to learn in Elko, Minnesota. How can we close the achievement gap when students do not have the necessary materials to succeed? Second grade is typically where the achievement starts to become prevalent as second grade includes a variety of new skills and the pace picks up.

With mentor texts, students will be able to relate to the texts teaching them specific comprehensive reading skills they are then able to apply to their own books.

With mentor texts, students are enjoying the stories while also learning important comprehension skills.

My Project

Mentor texts are pieces of literature that you can return to and reread for many different purposes. Mentor texts are to be studied and then imitated. Mentor texts help students make powerful connections to their own lives. Mentor texts help students take risks and try out new strategies.

If we want students to do something well, it helps to both tell them and show them what we expect.

Using mentor texts will allow me to model comprehensive reading strategies in second grade students by allowing them to relate to the text. Mentor texts are also cross curricular. Mentor texts are great for writing and allow the students to think of themselves as a writer. It also allows the teacher to use mentor sentences to teach grammar and spelling.

Mrs. Schmitz
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Spookley the Square Pumpkin • Amazon Business $24.28 1 $24.28
Polar Express 30th anniversary edition • Amazon Business $15.87 1 $15.87
Henry's Map • Amazon Business $14.13 1 $14.13
Two Bad Ants • Amazon Business $13.77 1 $13.77
Duck for President (A Click, Clack Book) • Amazon Business $13.76 1 $13.76
Two • Amazon Business $12.89 1 $12.89
Hedgie's Surprise • Amazon Business $12.76 1 $12.76
Elmer (Elmer Books) • Amazon Business $11.89 1 $11.89
One • Amazon Business $11.66 1 $11.66
Tops & Bottoms (Caldecott Honor Book) • Amazon Business $11.60 1 $11.60
Where the Wild Things Are • Amazon Business $11.36 1 $11.36
I Love You the Purplest • Amazon Business $11.17 1 $11.17
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (If You Give...) • Amazon Business $10.64 1 $10.64
Owl Moon • Amazon Business $9.94 1 $9.94
Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse • Amazon Business $9.89 1 $9.89
The Royal Bee • Amazon Business $8.98 1 $8.98
My Mouth Is a Volcano! • Amazon Business $8.78 1 $8.78
I am Amelia Earhart (Ordinary People Change the World) • Amazon Business $8.74 1 $8.74
I Wish I Were a Butterfly • Amazon Business $8.00 1 $8.00
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears: A West African Tale • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Fly Away Home • Amazon Business $7.97 1 $7.97
The Wright Brothers' First Flight: A Fly on the Wall History • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95
Stella Writes an Opinion • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers • Amazon Business $7.46 1 $7.46
Amos & Boris • Amazon Business $7.45 1 $7.45
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble • Amazon Business $7.32 1 $7.32
My Freedom Trip: A Child’s Escape from North Korea • Amazon Business $7.29 1 $7.29
Storm Boy • Amazon Business $7.01 1 $7.01
Ira Sleeps Over • Amazon Business $7.00 1 $7.00
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt (Reading Rainbow Books) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Charlie Anderson • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
The Story of Jumping Mouse • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
The Perfect Pet • Amazon Business $6.98 1 $6.98
Sheila Rae, the Brave • Amazon Business $6.97 1 $6.97
How Many Days to America?: A Thanksgiving Story • Amazon Business $6.53 1 $6.53
The Scrambled States of America • Amazon Business $6.53 1 $6.53
Chester's Way • Amazon Business $6.44 1 $6.44
I Wonder Why the Sea Is Salty: and Other Questions About the Oceans • Amazon Business $6.36 1 $6.36
Nobody Owns the Sky: The Story of "Brave Bessie" Coleman • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Love You Forever • Amazon Business $5.95 1 $5.95
Eggbert: The Slightly Cracked Egg (Paperstar) • Amazon Business $5.87 1 $5.87
The Relatives Came • Amazon Business $5.04 1 $5.04
A Frog's Life (TIME FOR KIDS® Nonfiction Readers) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Who Would Win? Polar Bear vs. Grizzly Bear • Amazon Business $3.17 1 $3.17
Who Would Win? Killer Whale vs. Great White Shark • Amazon Business $3.16 1 $3.16

Materials cost

$400.45

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.01

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$436.46

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$77.02

Total project goal

$513.48

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$513.48

12 Donors

-$366.74

Donations toward project cost

-$311.73

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$55.01

match offer

-$146.74

Match offer toward project cost

-$124.73

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$22.01

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$0.00

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