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Mrs. Bottari from Chicago IL is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Non Fiction is BIG

The cost of two Science Big Books sets and two Social Studies Big Book sets is $853, including shipping and <a target="new" href="http://www.donorschoose.org/html/fulfillment.htm" onclick="g_openWindow('http://www.donorschoose.org/html/fulfillment.htm', 300, 800, 'fulfillwindow');return false;">fulfillment</a>.

  • $873 goal

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Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

Teaching students to read is difficult enough. As educators and parents we are lucky when we can engage a child in a story. Usually the stories that engross children are fictional stories. However, students need to understand how to read non fiction. Usually students experience non fiction in a text book or magazine. The teacher will tell them to look at the key, legend or map. But how do they know what a key, legend, or map look like? How can we be sure they are looking at the correct piece of information? We need to SHOW them. Research shows that children learn to understand non fiction text better when presented to them using big books. This way the teacher can model where the river on the map is or how to use a legend. In teaching primary aged children, it is hard to keep their attention. Non fiction big books that are colorful and allow the teacher to model reading would help to increase their awareness on how to read non fiction text. Working in an underprivileged area it is my personal goal to have my students leave with not only the love of learning - but life skills as well. Non fiction text includes life skills and the necessary information to become a life long learner.

Mrs. Bottari
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Science Big Books- Set of 5 • Kaplan Early Learning Company $154.76 2 $309.52
Social Studies Big Books-Set of 5 • Kaplan Early Learning Company $154.76 2 $309.52

Materials cost

$619.04

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

3rd party payment processing fee

Fulfillment labor & materials

Total project cost

$715.45

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$157.05

Total project goal

$872.50

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$872.50

1 Donor

-$822.77

Donations toward project cost

-$716.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$106.77

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$50.40

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$0.00

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