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Mrs. Lewis from W Des Moines, IA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Motivating Students To Read With Graphic Novels

My students need reading materials that spark their interests and motivations to read everyday.

  • $207 goal

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My Students

My students love to read, but our classroom and library does not have the books that our students are interested in. Our students love reading graphic novels. The students are motivated to read and we can't keep the few that we have on the shelves.

Our students are growing up in a lower income area.

The goal of our school is to provide our students with the mind set, resources, and education to be the change for themselves! Our students face many challenges everyday and we strive to make their school their home away from home! My students are extremely motivated to learn. They are creative thinkers and love displaying their learning through art and projects rather than worksheets! We are a large school in a lower income area. Our school is designed around making them comfortable and giving them a feeling of home and safety. Our school is equipped with a dining room and grade level living rooms to accomplish this goal. We strive to help our students become the best they can possibly be and to find the true value of their education.

My Project

Providing our classrooms with graphic novels will inspire and motivate our children to read and write based on their graphic novels. The students truly enjoy reading this genre of fiction! They become so involved in the stories and have such wonderful conversations with their classmates about the books. Graphic novels help our students LOVE TO READ!!

This projects is extremely important to our third graders!

They are so interested in these graphic novel series and we simply do not have very many of them available for checkout in our classrooms and school library. They are very popular and hard to get their hands on. These types of books motivate our students and help them develop positive reading habits! They are using these books to improve their reading skills and strategies for comprehension. We appreciate your support of learning.

Mrs. Lewis Hillside Elementary School Grades 3-5

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W Des Moines, IA View local requests

Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

80 students impacted 7donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Lunch Lady and the Author Visit Vendetta 3 • AKJ Books $10.13 1 $10.13
Lunch Lady and the Bake Sale Bandit • AKJ Books $10.13 1 $10.13
Lunch Lady and the Cyborg Substitute • AKJ Books $9.35 1 $9.35
Lunch Lady and the League of Librarians Jarrett J. Krosoczka • AKJ Books $5.45 1 $5.45
Lunch Lady and the Summer Camp Shakedown 4 • AKJ Books $10.13 1 $10.13
Heartbreaker • AKJ Books $5.45 1 $5.45
Babymouse 11 • AKJ Books $5.45 1 $5.45
Queen of the World! • AKJ Books $5.45 1 $5.45
Musical, The • AKJ Books $5.45 1 $5.45
Beach Babe • AKJ Books $5.45 1 $5.45
Our Hero • AKJ Books $5.45 1 $5.45
Camp Babymouse • AKJ Books $5.45 1 $5.45
My Name Is Stilton, Geronimo Stilton (Geronimo Stilton Serie • AKJ Books $5.45 1 $5.45
The Discovery of America (Geronimo Stilton Graphic Novel Ser • AKJ Books $7.79 1 $7.79
Following the Trail of Marco Polo (Geronimo Stilton Graphic • AKJ Books $7.79 1 $7.79
The Secret of the Sphinx (Geronimo Stilton Graphic Novel Ser • AKJ Books $7.79 1 $7.79
Geronimo Stilton, Secret Agent (Geronimo Stilton Series #34) • AKJ Books $5.45 1 $5.45
Thea Stilton and the Secret City (Geronimo Stilton: Thea Ser • AKJ Books $6.23 1 $6.23
Thea Stilton and the Mountain of Fire (Geronimo Stilton: The • AKJ Books $6.23 1 $6.23

Materials cost

$130.07

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $8.91

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.95

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$175.93

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$31.05

Total project goal

$206.98

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $206.98

6 Donors

-$97.32

Donations toward project cost

-$87.97

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$9.35

match offer

-$103.48

Match offer toward project cost

-$87.96

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$15.52

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$6.17

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