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Mr. Smith from Herriman, UT is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Building Literacy Skills Through Fictional and Nonfiction Texts

Help me give my students a diverse reading curriculum for continued development of reading and writing.

FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Smith's classroom raised $498

This project is fully funded

My Project

My students love to read. These fiction and nonfiction books would be used on a daily basis. I will be using these books for daily reading time to reinforce their fluency skills, comprehension skills, and accuracy skills. These leveled texts would allow students to practice "at their appropriate reading level," helping them to advance reading levels.

I will also use these books to develop their writing skills through daily activities and lessons throughout the week.

Grammar, vocabulary, and high frequency words will also be integrated into the story and the lessons used with it.

Our classroom library would be complete with a collection of these fictional leveled text that would fit the need of each individual student.

Students would love to have a selection of books to choose from each day. These texts would help students develop comprehension skills, build reading fluency, and increase reading levels.

Mr. Smith Silver Crest Elementary School Grades PreK-2 Herriman, UT View local requests 30 students impacted 3donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Boy Who Cried Wolf • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
Groundhog's Day Off • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
The Three Ninja Pigs • Amazon Business $16.39 1 $16.39
A Crankenstein Valentine • Amazon Business $16.19 1 $16.19
Love Monster and the Last Chocolate • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Creepy Carrots! (Creepy Tales!) • Amazon Business $15.49 1 $15.49
Memoirs of an Elf • Amazon Business $15.21 1 $15.21
Samurai Santa: A Very Ninja Christmas (Samurai Holiday) • Amazon Business $14.89 1 $14.89
Michael Recycle • Amazon Business $14.69 1 $14.69
Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! • Amazon Business $14.29 1 $14.29
Tops & Bottoms (Caldecott Honor Book) • Amazon Business $13.49 1 $13.49
The Most Magnificent Thing • Amazon Business $13.49 1 $13.49
Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon • Amazon Business $13.18 1 $13.18
I am Abraham Lincoln (Ordinary People Change the World) • Amazon Business $12.94 1 $12.94
I Like Myself! • Amazon Business $12.49 1 $12.49
The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend • Amazon Business $12.39 1 $12.39
Enemy Pie : (Reading Rainbow Book, Children’s Book about Kindness, Kids Books about Learning) • Amazon Business $12.29 1 $12.29
Catch That Cookie! • Amazon Business $12.29 1 $12.29
The Boy Who Cried Bigfoot! • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Creepy Pair of Underwear! (Creepy Tales!) • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Click, Clack, Moo Cows That Type • Amazon Business $10.49 1 $10.49
Diary of a Spider • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
The Emperor's Cool Clothes • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Do Unto Otters: A Book About Manners • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Dragons Love Tacos • Amazon Business $8.95 1 $8.95
Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (A Big Words Book, 1) • Amazon Business $8.19 1 $8.19
Anansi and the Talking Melon (Anansi the Trickster) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
The Great Fuzz Frenzy • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Turkey Trouble • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Bone Soup • Amazon Business $6.89 1 $6.89
National Geographic Readers: Polar Bears • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
The Thing About Spring • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
National Geographic Readers: Bats • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99

Materials cost

$387.09

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.81

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$422.90

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$74.63

Total project goal

$497.53

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$497.53

2 Donors

-$282.69

Donations toward project cost

-$281.94

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$0.75

match offer

-$165.84

Match offer toward project cost

-$140.96

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$24.88

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$49.00

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

$0.00

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