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Ms. Aggarwal from Denver, CO is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Building Bridges to Literacy

Help me give my students confidence to become excellent readers to lead the world.

  • $759 goal

This project expired on July 18, 2025.

This project expired on July 18, 2025.

My Project

I teach Kindergarten at an IB school and I just completed my course in Science of Reading. This course allowed me to do a mind shift and think about how to teach the kids with conditions like dyslexia and autism. I learned how these young brains learn to read by mastering the foundational skills such as phonics, decoding and phonemic awareness.

My goal is to make every child feel confident as a reader when they exit my kinder classroom.

I have a diverse group of students including the English Language Learners, kinesthetic and visual learners. By supporting me buying these materials, such as alphabet sounds and blends & digraphs teaching tubs you will be helping my students to use the hands-on learning approach to enhance their phonemic awareness skills. I can use these materials in creating and running literacy stations which will encourage my students to collaborate and share their thinking and learning with each other. This will allow them to agree/disagree respectfully with each other (which is the basic life skill in present day world). Not only this, but it will also make their learning engaging and enjoyable.

By donating to my project, you will be making a huge contribution towards nurturing excellent readers and writers for the future.

Ms. Aggarwal Swigert International School Grades PreK-2 Denver, CO View local requests 26 students impacted

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Lakeshore Alphabet Sounds Teaching Tubs • Lakeshore Learning Materials $199.00 1 $199.00
Lakeshore Blends & Digraphs Teaching Tubs • Lakeshore Learning Materials $109.00 1 $109.00
Lakeshore Touch & Read Phonics Word Match - Complete Set for Beginning Readers and Science of Reading • Lakeshore Learning Materials $89.50 1 $89.50
Lakeshore Creating Sight-Word Sentences Center • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 1 $49.99
Lakeshore What’s the Rhyme? Sorting Houses • Lakeshore Learning Materials $39.99 1 $39.99
Lakeshore Simple Words Learning Locks • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99
Lakeshore Alphabet Stamps - Lowercase • Lakeshore Learning Materials $16.99 1 $16.99
Lakeshore Word Building Puzzles - 4-Letter Words • Lakeshore Learning Materials $14.99 1 $14.99
Lakeshore Word Building Puzzles - 3-Letter Words • Lakeshore Learning Materials $14.99 1 $14.99
Lakeshore Money Equivalency Puzzles • Lakeshore Learning Materials $12.99 1 $12.99

Materials cost

$577.43

Vendor shipping charges

$28.87

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$8.66

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$644.96

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$113.82

Total project goal

$758.78

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