{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":false,"callToActionDisplayName":"Marquette Elementary School","outOfStateSupporters":20.0,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":2510055,"projectId":9252087,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting our classroom with your generous contribution to fund our Donors Choose project! My third grade students are thrilled to have this collection of new graphic novels. My students love to read during the thirty minutes of independent reading that follows lunch recess each day.\r\n\r\nI was excited to share these new graphic novels last week. I held up each book and read the titles and blurbs yesterday. My students were very excited, too. Every new book was quickly snatched up! Students seem particularly excited to read Frizzy, Beetle & the Hollowbones, and Ghost Book. The Crossover is a book we already have in our room in regular written form. It's a novel-in-verse. Students who had read that previously were eager to read the graphic novel version, and it is already in the hands of the third reader who will start reading it on Monday. The student who is reading Curlfriends walked over to me and said, \"I think this book was written just for me.\" So, students are into these books!\r\n\r\nGraphic novels are great for keeping students' attention with their strong images and fast pace. They help create connections between words and images to deepen students' understanding of the storyline. 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My students love to read during the thirty minutes of independent reading that follows lunch recess each day.\r\n\r\nAs we sat together and I introduced each of the new books, many students were eager to get their hands on one of them. A High Five for Glenn Burke, about the San Francisco Giants baseball player, is being read and has a waiting list six kids long on a post-it tucked inside the front cover. Maybe it will be a spark for a kid who is LGBTQ and plays sports to feel more welcome or for one of my students to be more welcoming to others on the field. Students are also reading The Civil War of Amos Abernathy, Just Lizzie, and Too Bright to See. I read Melissa by Alex Gino to my class earlier this spring. It's about a transgender girl who is trying to understand herself and share who she is with the rest of the world. I am glad that we could update our classroom library with more books and audiobooks featuring lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender characters.\r\n\r\nAs teacher, I know that my students become stronger readers by reading independently. With this donation, students are able to listen while reading along to books, which creates more entry points for my students to access great literature. This reading approach has been shown to positively impact reading fluency and interest toward reading. Thank you again for supporting my students' reading development and love of reading.","fullyFundedDate":1744217780501,"projectUrl":"project/lgbtq-books-and-audiobooks-for-our-class/9218254/","projectTitle":"LGBTQ Books and Audiobooks for Our Classroom Library","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Mark","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp2510055_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1728251843670","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/team20"},{"teacherId":2510055,"projectId":9113457,"letterContent":"Thank you, Berkeley, for supporting our classroom, once again, with your generous contribution to fund our Donors Choose project! My third grade students are so happy to have this collection of new audio books. My students love to read during the thirty minutes of independent reading that follows lunch recess each day.\r\n\r\nI am pleased to report that every single book from this project is currently being read by one of my students. The Hilda books are particularly popular and have a waiting list. Students are familiar with them from the Netflix series and are eager to read them in order. Silvia & Aki and Me, Frida, and the Secret of the Peacock Ring are titles included in our school districts Book Bowl for fourth graders. So, a couple of my students are already reading for when they compete next year. \r\n\r\nAs teacher, I know that my students become stronger readers by reading independently. With this donation, students are able to listen while reading along to books, which creates more entry points for my students to access great literature. This reading approach has been shown to positively impact reading fluency and interest toward reading. Thank you again, Berkeley, for supporting my students' reading development and love of reading.","fullyFundedDate":1741401742888,"projectUrl":"project/books-and-audiobooks-for-our-classroom-l/9113457/","projectTitle":"Books and Audiobooks for Our Classroom Library","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Mark","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp2510055_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1728251843670","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/team20"},{"teacherId":2510055,"projectId":8965549,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting our classroom with your generous contribution to fund our Donors Choose project! My third grade students are so happy to have this collection of new audio books. My students love to read during the thirty minutes of independent reading that follows lunch recess each day.\r\n\r\nI recently read aloud Melissa, by Alex Gino, to my class. So my students were very eager to get their hands on Gino's other titles, including Rick, You Don't Know Everything, Jilly P!, and Alice Austen Lived Here. All those books are currently being read. Many of my students enjoy reading graphic novels. Both Twins and Mexikid, which won last year's Newbery Award, are also in the hands of readers. \r\n\r\nAs teacher, I know that my students become stronger readers by reading independently. With this donation, students are able to listen while reading along to books, which creates more entry points for my students to access great literature. This reading approach has been shown to positively impact reading fluency and interest toward reading. 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They chose John Lewis, Kamala Harris, Ernest Just, Clara Hale, Bobby Seale, Kristal Ambrose, and more. Students highlighted what they thought was important in their article, identified themes within their highlighting, and are currently taking notes by paraphrasing. Students will soon write their rough draft in Google Docs to ready their writing for display in our hallway.\r\n\r\nThrough this project, we will focus on the contributions of African Americans from the past and the present. 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Another student has the first book in the Future Hero story loaded on his audio player. This allows him to read along to the book as he listens to the book being read aloud. I appreciate having these books with African American main characters.\r\n\r\nAs teacher, I know that my students become stronger readers by reading independently. With this donation, students are able to listen while reading along to books, which creates more entry points for my students to access great literature. This reading approach has been shown to positively impact reading fluency and interest toward reading. 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