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Ms. Smith from South Jordan, UT is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Genre Book Study

Help me give my students some great reading choices for our genre book studies throughout the year!

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Smith's classroom raised $333

This project is fully funded

My Students

My students are a hardworking and fun-loving group that love to read, read, read! My students attend a suburban, public school in the south end of the Salt Lake valley. While I find that many of my students are able to read and comprehend fictional texts, the majority of them struggle with identifying a text's genre as well as the characteristics of particular genres.

In addition to being voracious readers, my students are also very tech savvy and love to create projects that build and develop their technology skills.

They are truly 21st century learners, and they love being part of a classroom community that focuses on using technology skills each day!

My Project

I love to foster my students' love of reading, and one of the best ways I've found to do that is to introduce them to some of my own favorite examples of children's literature in a variety of different genres.

Although many of my students already love reading, I feel they are often hesitant to branch out and try new books and genres without a bit of direction and guidance.

For this reason, I've decided to highlight different fiction genres throughout the year and teach students about the characteristics that make each genre unique and fun. Every six weeks, students will have the chance to learn about a new genre, and I would love to have well-written, high quality books available in my classroom to spotlight for my students!

After learning about a different genre, students will then have the opportunity to self-select books for a genre book study, take a more in-depth look at how their chosen book exemplifies the characteristics of a particular genre through a technology-based report, and create a project that showcases their chosen book to their classmates.

Ms. Smith South Jordan Elementary School Grades 6-8 South Jordan, UT View local requests 28 students impacted 2donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club (Bccb Blue Ribbon Nonfiction Book Award (Awards)) • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Refugee • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
No Summit out of Sight: The True Story of the Youngest Person to Climb the Seven Summits • Amazon Business $11.74 1 $11.74
Chasing Lincoln's Killer • Amazon Business $11.33 1 $11.33
Unwind (1) (Unwind Dystology) • Amazon Business $10.60 1 $10.60
How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous • Amazon Business $9.49 1 $9.49
The Graveyard Book • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Oracles of Delphi Keep • Amazon Business $8.19 1 $8.19
When You Reach Me (Yearling Newbery) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Kat, Incorrigible • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos (The Theodosia Series) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Wild Things • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
The Naked Mole-Rat Letters • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Things Not Seen • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible . . . on Schindler's List • Amazon Business $7.98 1 $7.98
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95
The Boundless • Amazon Business $7.69 1 $7.69
Dead City (1) • Amazon Business $7.69 1 $7.69
Nerd Camp • Amazon Business $7.59 1 $7.59
War Horse (Scholastic Gold) • Amazon Business $7.57 1 $7.57
The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co.) • Amazon Business $7.53 1 $7.53
Touching Spirit Bear • Amazon Business $7.48 1 $7.48
Everything on a Waffle • Amazon Business $7.48 1 $7.48
Stargirl (Stargirl Series) • Amazon Business $7.43 1 $7.43
Moon Over Manifest • Amazon Business $7.19 1 $7.19
Cryptid Hunters • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Took: A Ghost Story • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Framed • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom • Amazon Business $6.79 1 $6.79
City of Ghosts (1) • Amazon Business $5.59 1 $5.59

Materials cost

$249.19

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.74

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$282.93

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$49.93

Total project goal

$332.86

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $332.86

2 Donors

-$295.38

Donations toward project cost

-$282.93

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$12.45

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$37.48

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