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Mrs. Cheek from Roxboro NC is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Build-A-Word To Learn-A-Word

My students need a hands-on activity to practice spelling words. These magnetic word builder tiles and boards will be perfect!

  • $259 goal

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My Students

The students are 2nd graders in a rural North Carolina elementary school. We have just over 200 students with more than half of the students coming from low‑income households. Students spend their second grade year learning the foundations of reading.

Second grade is an important year in the building of reading foundational skills.

Students learn to apply phonics and word analysis skills when decoding words. They also learn common vowel teams, prefixes, suffixes, inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences, and sight words.

My Project

Second grade is such an important year when it comes to the foundation of language arts. This is the last year when students are "learning to read" instead of "reading to learn." It is this year when the building blocks are put in place for success in the future. Students are learning how words work. They are learning new letter combination sounds, prefixes and suffixes, and how to chunk words into parts to figure them out. They need a hands-on activity, such as these magnetic letters and boards, to help them grasp these very important concepts. These magnetic boards will be used in our spelling station weekly.

Mrs. Cheek
Grades PreK-2

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Primary Concepts Magnetic Word Builder (PC-1326) • Staples Advantage $28.99 6 $173.94

Materials cost

$173.94

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $13.57

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.61

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$220.12

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$38.84

Total project goal

$258.96

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $258.96

3 Donors

-$254.55

Donations toward project cost

-$220.12

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$34.43

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$4.41

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 $0.00

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