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Mrs. Brumbelow from Plano TX is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Listen to Reading

My students need personal CD players so that they can hear what fluent reading sounds like and so that they can become more fluent readers themselves.

  • $271 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

"When you can read then you can go to Kalamazoo or Idaho". This is a line from one of my favorite poems. It is so true and my goal as a first grade teacher is for my students to learn to read and to love to read!

I teach first grade to ESL, bilingual, and regular ed children at a Title 1 school in an urban district.

The majority of my students are low socioeconomic and they are all very active and really need activities that will keep them focused and engaged. They are eager to learn and love our Daily 5 (literacy center) time. They really enjoy listening to books on tape, but don't always want to listen to the same book as their neighbor.

My Project

In our classroom we use the Daily 5/ CAFE form of Guided Reading. While I am working with a small group the others are completing work independently. I would like to give my students the freedom to choose their own books and listen to them; encouraging them to become independent readers. With these CD players and headphones my students will be able to listen to a book or song of their own choosing.

I cannot express what an extremely important grade first grade is and how passionately I feel about my students learning to read and learning to LOVE reading.

In order to do that it is crucial to give them exciting activities that make them want to learn and want to read.

Mrs. Brumbelow
Grades PreK-2

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
FF335X - Student CD Player - Set of 4 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $149.00 1 $149.00
FD236 - AC Adaptor • Lakeshore Learning Materials $11.99 4 $47.96

Materials cost

$196.96

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.95

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$229.91

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$40.57

Total project goal

$270.48

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $270.48

3 Donors

-$135.23

Donations toward project cost

-$114.95

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$20.28

match offer

-$135.25

Match offer toward project cost

-$114.96

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$20.29

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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