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Mrs. Jenks from Mountainside, NJ is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Navigating Narrative Nonfiction

My students need multiple copies of leveled narrative nonfiction text books for a unit of study on narrative nonfiction text.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Jenks's classroom raised $799

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My Students

"Nonfiction is boring!" cried my students. They haven't been carried away in the life and story of a biography. They haven't yet experienced how to examine text structures, draw on prior knowledge and grow and grasp ideas. Biographies are one way to glean information and ideas on famous individuals.

We are small, suburban, close-knit community and this is an inclusive classroom of 3rd grade students with diverse levels of reading skills and abilities.

Last year our district implemented the Readers Workshop program. The program is ideal for an inclusive classroom as each student can read on his "just right" level. Our biggest obstacle has been providing an ample selection of books across reading levels and genres. Our students are currently engaged in expository nonfiction and becoming "experts" on a topic. We hope to provide them with a unit in narrative nonfiction using biographies. They are becoming "nose-in-the-book" readers who never want to put their books down and who are learning that reading informational and factual texts can be exciting!

My Project

Current standards indicate 50% of reading in third grade should be nonfiction. Within nonfiction there are two categories: expository and narrative. Our students will learn narrative nonfiction follows a predictable story structure. Characters have traits and motivations. They interact with other people and their environment. They face challenges and obstacles. They will learn to hold onto concepts involving social issues, historical events and monumental achievements rather than just mining the text to gather facts. Having multiple copies of biographical texts across reading levels will provide the students with the resources they need to build these skills while enabling them to confer with peers, to share their ideas, to question "why" and "how" events unfold, and to share opinions as well as the life lessons to be learned.

We want to provide students with learning experiences that excite and push their inquiry skills.

We want our students to become lifelong learners and send them off with the skills they need to be able to read, gather information, form ideas and theories, make inferences and clearly communicate information to those around them. Many biographies share a theme of overcoming an obstacle on the road to achievement, an especially motivating concept in a learning disabled classroom!

Mrs. Jenks Deerfield Elementary School Grades 3-5 Mountainside, NJ View local requests 20 students impacted 10donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Secret Soldier : The Story of Deborah Sampson • AKJ Books $5.10 4 $20.40
If I Only Had a Horn: Young Louis Armstrong Roxane Orgill, L • AKJ Books $5.07 4 $20.28
Laura Ingalls Wilder Ginger Wadsworth, Shelly O. Haas (Illus • AKJ Books $5.07 4 $20.28
Jackie Robinson (On My Own Biography Series) Sally M. Walker • AKJ Books $5.07 4 $20.28
Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express • AKJ Books $5.07 4 $20.28
The Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder, Pioneer Girl • AKJ Books $4.37 4 $17.48
Who Was Leonardo de Vinci? • AKJ Books $4.37 4 $17.48
Who Was Eleanor Roosevelt? • AKJ Books $3.64 4 $14.56
Who Was Anne Frank? • AKJ Books $3.64 3 $10.92
Who Was Albert Einstein? • AKJ Books $3.64 3 $10.92
Meet George Washington • AKJ Books $3.64 4 $14.56
Who Was Annie Oakley? • AKJ Books $3.64 2 $7.28
Meet Christopher Columbus • AKJ Books $3.64 4 $14.56
Louis Braille : The Boy Who Invented Books for the Blind • AKJ Books $3.64 4 $14.56
Who Were the Beatles? • AKJ Books $3.64 4 $14.56
Who Was Johnny Appleseed? • AKJ Books $3.64 4 $14.56
Who Was Marco Polo? • AKJ Books $3.64 4 $14.56
Who is Maria Tallchief? • AKJ Books $3.64 4 $14.56
Who Was Sacagawea? • AKJ Books $3.64 4 $14.56
Who Was William Shakespeare? • AKJ Books $3.64 3 $10.92
Meet Martin Luther King, Jr. • AKJ Books $3.64 4 $14.56
A Horn for Louis • AKJ Books $3.64 4 $14.56
Who Was Elvis Presley • AKJ Books $3.64 4 $14.56
Who Was Daniel Boone? • AKJ Books $3.64 4 $14.56
Who was Thomas Jefferson? • AKJ Books $4.37 4 $17.48
Clara Barton: Spirt of the American Red Cross • AKJ Books $2.91 4 $11.64
The Story of Anne Frank, Biography • AKJ Books $2.91 4 $11.64
Helen Keller - Courage in the Dark • AKJ Books $2.91 4 $11.64
A Lesson for Martin Luther King, Jr. (Ready-to-Read) • AKJ Books $2.91 4 $11.64
Who Was George Washington? • AKJ Books $3.64 3 $10.92
Who Was Dr. Seuss? • AKJ Books $3.64 2 $7.28
Who Was Claude Monet? • AKJ Books $3.64 3 $10.92
Who Was Harry Houdini? • AKJ Books $3.64 3 $10.92
Who Was Jim Henson? Joan Holub, Nancy Harrison (Illustrator) • AKJ Books $3.64 3 $10.92
Who Was Ferdinand Magellan? • AKJ Books $3.64 3 $10.92
Who Was Helen Keller? • AKJ Books $3.64 3 $10.92
Who Was Abraham Lincoln? • AKJ Books $3.64 3 $10.92
Who Was Benjamin Franklin? • AKJ Books $3.64 3 $10.92
Who Was JFK? • AKJ Books $3.64 3 $10.92
Who Is Bill Gates? • AKJ Books $3.64 3 $10.92
Who Is Neil Armstrong? • AKJ Books $3.64 3 $10.92
Who Was Franklin Roosevelt? Margaret Frith, John O''Brien (Il • AKJ Books $3.64 3 $10.92
Milton Hershey: Young Chocolatier M. M. Eboch, Meryl Henders • AKJ Books $5.10 2 $10.20
Who Is Jane Goodall? • AKJ Books $3.64 2 $7.28
Who Is J. K. Rowling? • AKJ Books $3.64 2 $7.28
Who Was Walt Disney? • AKJ Books $3.64 3 $10.92
Who Is Barack Obama? • AKJ Books $3.64 2 $7.28
Who Was Annie Oakley? • AKJ Books $3.64 2 $7.28
Who Was Steve Jobs? • AKJ Books $3.64 2 $7.28
Who Was Dr. Seuss? • AKJ Books $3.64 2 $7.28
A Weed Is a Flower: The Life of George Washington Carver Ali • AKJ Books $5.83 1 $5.83

Materials cost

$638.79

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.58

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$678.37

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$119.71

Total project goal

$798.08

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $798.08

9 Donors

-$489.26

Donations toward project cost

-$423.37

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$65.89

match offer

-$300.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$255.00

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$45.00

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$8.82

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