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Ms. Diana from West Springfield MA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Building Language & Literacy With Books and Hands on Activities!

Help me give my students opportunities to borrow books and games to share with their families.

  • $800 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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My Students

I have the privilege to work with small groups of first and second grade students every day. In a small group setting, students have many more opportunists to talk and listen, while developing their oral language skills. Many of the students with whom I see, have limited vocabulary.

My students are selected to receive extra literacy support because their literacy skills fall below grade level.

Every day I try to match great books with students so they can find pleasure and success as they emerge as readers.

Some of the children I work with have learning disabilities, some students are coming from homes where other languages are spoken (mostly Russian and Spanish speaking homes). These young ELLs (English language learners) benefit from being taught in a small quiet setting where they can feel safe to explore language and make mistakes.

Some of my students have come from homes where they have had limited exposure to books.

My students become very excited to find "just right books" (books that are at their reading level). And finding a book about a favorite topic is truly a thrill. I love to see their enthusiasm and curiosity.

My Project

With this project my at risk students will have a chance to be engaged in high interest literacy activities. Some of the key elements to improving students' literacy outcomes include- building phonemic awareness, exposure to print, home school connection, and vocabulary development. I hope to address all of these components in my project.

My project will include fun hands on phonemic awareness games and colorful fiction and non fiction books with a take home bag.

The books include a variety of interesting topics including sports and animals. The games will include sorting activities to practice sound symbol relationships and a rhyming game. Children will have a chance to select books with topics of personal interest. In addition, I will help students find books at their reading level. These books and activities will go home in a book bag. Once the child is at home, they will have books to read at their level, as well as, a book or an activity that the family can enjoy together. Reading and playing educational games will give opportunities for connection and vocabulary building. This experience will build a home school connection and promote the excitement of learning. The books and manipulative activities are selected carefully to be of high interest for first and second grade students.

These materials will help develop vocabulary and bring the opportunity to share the joy of books at home. This increased exposure to language in print will increase the confidence and improve outcomes for our most at risk students.

Ms. Diana
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
LC856 - Alphabet Sounds Teaching Tubs • Lakeshore Learning Materials $149.00 1 $149.00
Sports Talk, Scholastic News Nonfiction Readers: Grades 1 - 2 • Scholastic Magazines and Book Clubs $89.00 1 $89.00
LITERACY BAG PETE THE CAT WHITE SHOES • School Specialty $47.63 1 $47.63
AA413 - Rhyming Sounds Phonemic Awareness Box • Lakeshore Learning Materials $39.99 1 $39.99
LITERACY BAG FROGG GOES TO SCHOOL • School Specialty $39.40 1 $39.40
LL439 - Rhyming Sounds Magnetic Sorting Board • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99
Today I Will Fly! (An Elephant and Piggie Book) • AKJ Education $7.29 3 $21.87
My New Friend Is So Fun! (An Elephant and Piggie Book) • AKJ Education $7.29 3 $21.87
My Friend is Sad (An Elephant and Piggie Book) An Elephant and Piggie Book • AKJ Education $7.29 3 $21.87
I Will Surprise My Friend! (An Elephant and Piggie Book) • AKJ Education $7.29 3 $21.87
LL248 - Alphabet Picture Magnets • Lakeshore Learning Materials $19.99 1 $19.99
Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons • AKJ Education $16.19 1 $16.19
The Very Hungry Caterpillar board book • AKJ Education $8.02 1 $8.02
Are You My Mother? • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Inside Outside Upside Down • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Jamberry: 25th Anniversary Edition • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Sharks • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
School Bus: For the Buses, the Riders, and the Watchers • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Mary Wore Her Red Dress and Henry Wore His Green Sneakers • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
The Chick and the Duckling • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
I Went Walking • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Henny Penny • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Where's Spot (color) • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Animal Babies • AKJ Education $4.67 1 $4.67
Apple Trees • AKJ Education $4.59 1 $4.59
Wheels! • AKJ Education $4.49 1 $4.49
Joshua James Likes Trucks • AKJ Education $4.34 1 $4.34
My Dog Fuzzy • AKJ Education $4.20 1 $4.20
It's a Good Thing There Are Insects • AKJ Education $3.61 1 $3.61
Farm Animals • AKJ Education $3.19 1 $3.19
Here Come the Trucks • AKJ Education $2.91 1 $2.91
Who's Hiding? • AKJ Education $2.55 1 $2.55

Materials cost

$622.46

Vendor shipping charges

$17.60

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.34

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$679.40

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$119.89

Total project goal

$799.29

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$799.29

3 Donors

-$799.29

Donations toward project cost

-$679.40

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$119.89

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$0.00

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