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Ms. Khrystyne Elsberry from Friend NE is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Incorporating Board Games in the Writing Classroom

Help me give my students literature gaming! Board games can be used to motivate reluctant writers, creative impulses, and social communities. Students will inspire a “state of play” in participants giving them a brain break with creativity!

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Incorporating board games in the writing classroom to meet multiple needs with visual, auditory, and debating!

Board games can meet language development and instead of writing for IEP students, students can respond orally.

Systematic reviews indicate that board games help students strengthen their critical thinking skills, storytelling abilities, inquiry skills, problem-solving skills, collaboration skills, motivation, educational outcomes, emotional functioning, cognitive functioning, retention abilities, reasoning skills, discussion abilities, social connections, vocabulary and grammar acquisition.

Each of the 84 Dixit cards is illustrated by French artist Marie Cardouat. Born in 1981, Marie Cardouat was born in Finistère, a department in the north-east of France. She graduated from the School of Decorative Arts in Strasbourg and it was during her studies that she developed her dreamy and imaginative style.

Ms. Khrystyne Elsberry
Grades 6-8

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Dixit Board Game by Libellud | Storytelling Party Game for Families | Creative and Fun | Ages 8+, 3-8 Players, 30 Min Playtime • Amazon Business $33.98 4 $135.92

Materials cost

$135.92

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$8.16

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.04

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$176.12

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$31.08

Total project goal

$207.20

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