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Mrs. Gryzynger from Tucson, AZ is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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ABCs and Phonemic Awareness Make Reading Accessible to All

Help me give my students opportunities to grow their reading skills through phonemic awareness activities and fun manipulatives to help them learn important reading skills while having fun!

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Gryzynger's classroom raised $334

This project is fully funded

My Project

The phonics materials and resources I am requesting will allow all students opportunity to learn necessary and valuable reading skills. The skills taught and explored through these materials will give students structured and explicit instruction in Phonemic Awareness, one of the 5 pillars of Reading. The alphabet manipulatives will be used in various ways to help students explore letters, letter identification, and letter sounds.

The goals for my project are to build instructional sequences that enable students to develop their reading skills, aiming to grow strong readers.

These skills will not only support my students in their primary reading level, but continue to support them throughout their educational career.

My students are special because they come to me with increased risk of not developing strong reading skills. My job is to explicit teach and build a strong foundation in reading to make them successful students. The materials in this project aim to do just that.

Mrs. Gryzynger Gale Elementary School Grades PreK-2

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Tucson, AZ View local requests

More than a third of 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

400 students impacted 7donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Kindergarten Curriculum 2022 • Heggerty.org $89.00 1 $89.00
Primary Curriculum 2022 • Heggerty.org $89.00 1 $89.00
Trend? Match Me? Games, Alphabet • Quill.com $17.57 1 $17.57
Learning Resources POP for Letters Alphabet Recognition Game • Kaplan Early Learning Company $13.46 1 $13.46
Lakeshore Splash! Jr. Alphabet Game • Lakeshore Learning Materials $10.99 1 $10.99

Materials cost

$220.02

Vendor shipping charges

$14.79

Sales tax

$15.73

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.30

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$283.84

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$50.09

Total project goal

$333.93

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$333.93

6 Donors

-$296.93

Donations toward project cost

-$252.39

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$44.54

match offer

-$37.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$31.45

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$5.55

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$0.00

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