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Mrs. Yeates from Murray, UT is requesting reading nooks, desks & storage through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Judge a Book by Its Cover

Help me give my students a special bookcase the displays beautiful front book covers and entices students to open the pages and immerse themselves in reading.

  • $328 goal

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My Project

"A book is a gift you can open again and again"- Garrison Keiller. My class of first grade kiddos are a smart, energetic bunch who are working hard to learn to read. They love to spend time in our classroom library we call The Book Nook. They curl up with pillows and a friend to immerse themselves in a story.

Students who are learning to read rely on cover art and illustrations to choose literature rather than reading a title.

Currently we use a traditional bookcase in our Book Nook. The students are only able to see the spines. Research done at the University of Memphis by Knowlton and Hackert in 2015 shows what we already suspected- covers add value by engaging reader in a way that is not achieved through other means.

J.K. Rowlings famously said, "If you don't like to read, you haven't found the right book." A front cover display shelf will allow my students to use beautiful illustrations to pick the right book without becoming frustrated pulling book after book out because they are not quite able to read the title on the book spine. I know this will encourage an increased engagement in self-selected reading in my sweet firsties.

Mrs. Yeates Woodstock Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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Murray, UT View local requests 21 students impacted 6donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
ECR4Kids Birch Book Display Stand with Storage with Rolling Casters, Double-Sided Hardwood Book Shelf Organizer for Kids, 5 Book Shelves and 2 Toy Shelves, Mobile Display Stand for Classrooms and Home • Amazon Business $244.99 1 $244.99

Materials cost

$244.99

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.67

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$278.66

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$49.18

Total project goal

$327.84

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$327.84

4 Donors

-$326.36

Donations toward project cost

-$278.66

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$47.70

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$1.48

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$0.00

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