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Mrs. Curtiss from West Jordan, UT is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Time to Read: Creating Lifelong Readers!

Help me give my students engaging and high quality classroom read aloud's that they can enjoy over and over again!

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Curtiss's classroom raised $576

This project is fully funded

My Project

My students absolutely love when we read stories aloud. To encourage students to love books can be as simple as reading aloud to them. Students are so intrigued by it all; the unfolding of the story, the pictures, and so much more. Each week we focus on a different story for our reading time and use a variety of stories to help build an understanding of the grade level comprehension strategies. Having stories that keep students engaged that also teach the literacy standards at the same time can be hard to come by.

These excellent and high quality read aloud's that I have selected will provide pinnacle levels of engagement while teaching crucial reading standards.

Due to the books being such great quality while also teaching such useful skills, they are hard to come by at the local libraries. Having a copy of them in my classroom will make things so much easier, plus it will allow my students to always have access to them! With these quality books in my classroom I will have great resources to teach from and it will help to establish superior engagement with students to create lifelong readers.

Mrs. Curtiss Fox Hollow Elementary School Grades PreK-2 West Jordan, UT View local requests 25 students impacted 11donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Pocket Full of Colors: The Magical World of Mary Blair, Disney Artist Extraordinaire • Amazon Business $18.93 1 $18.93
Digging for Words: José Alberto Gutiérrez and the Library He Built • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
John, Paul, George & Ben • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Flight School • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Interstellar Cinderella: (Princess Books for Kids, Books about Science) (Future Fairy Tales) • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
The Slug (Disgusting Critters) • Amazon Business $17.25 1 $17.25
Me . . . Jane • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
My School Stinks! • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Night Tree: A Christmas Holiday Book for Kids • Amazon Business $7.99 2 $15.98
Sharks: Level 3 (National Geographic Readers) • Amazon Business $15.78 1 $15.78
The Doctor with an Eye for Eyes: The Story of Dr. Patricia Bath (Amazing Scientists, 2) • Amazon Business $15.53 1 $15.53
Stellaluna 25th Anniversary Edition • Amazon Business $15.12 1 $15.12
If Polar Bears Disappeared (If Animals Disappeared) • Amazon Business $14.91 1 $14.91
Crankenstein • Amazon Business $14.89 1 $14.89
Penguin Problems (Animal Problems) • Amazon Business $13.79 1 $13.79
Rulers of the Playground • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
The Recess Queen • Amazon Business $12.79 1 $12.79
How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (Classic Seuss) • Amazon Business $12.09 1 $12.09
Dinosaur Lady: The Daring Discoveries of Mary Anning, the First Paleontologist (Women in Science Biographies, Fossil Books for Kids, Feminist Picture Books, Dinosaur Gifts for Kids) • Amazon Business $11.09 1 $11.09
Except Antarctica: A Hilarious Animal Picture Book for Kids • Amazon Business $10.55 1 $10.55
The Invisible Boy • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
The Wild Christmas Reindeer • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
A Bad Case of Tattle Tongue • Amazon Business $9.66 1 $9.66
The Quickest Kid in Clarksville • Amazon Business $9.39 1 $9.39
Spiders (New & Updated Edition) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
My Mouth Is A Volcano • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
The Rough-Face Girl • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Salt in His Shoes: Michael Jordan in Pursuit of a Dream • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Looking at Lincoln • Amazon Business $8.98 1 $8.98
Turk and Runt: A Thanksgiving Comedy • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Fireflies • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Snow Day! • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Koala Lou • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch (paperback) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Akiak: A Tale From the Iditarod • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
That's What Leprechauns Do • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
The Cockroach (Disgusting Critters) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99

Materials cost

$452.52

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.79

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$489.31

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$86.35

Total project goal

$575.66

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$575.66

9 Donors

-$408.56

Donations toward project cost

-$350.28

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$58.28

Matching donations from our partners

-$163.56

Match offers toward project cost

-$139.03

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$24.53

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$3.53

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$0.00

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