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Ms. Merriman from Walnut Creek, CA is requesting instructional technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Check me out! I can READ!

Help me give my students books that they can feel successful while reading!

  • $155 goal

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My Project

As a Reading Intervention teacher, I serve students who are currently not reading and writing at grade level. While many children just need a bit of extra explicit instruction, there are also children who are struggling due to learning differences. For others, it's due to social-emotional issues happening within and outside of school. No matter what the cause, struggling with reading and writing can really affect a child's confidence and love of learning.

I plan to use the Teachers Pay Teachers credits to download and print individual books for students to practice specific phonics skills that we're working on.

Finding these books is surprisingly difficult, especially for higher-level phonics skills that my older students need to work on.

By providing students access to these "decodable" readers, they can use spelling and sound patterns that they've just learned in order to "decode" or "sound out" most words in the book. Being able to have control over decoding words in a book gives struggling readers much-needed practice and also helps them to feel confident and successful.

Ms. Merriman Walnut Acres Elementary School Grades 3-5

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Walnut Creek, CA View local requests 30 students impacted 4donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
$100 Gift Card for Educational Resources on Teachers Pay Teachers • Teachers Pay Teachers $100.00 1 $100.00

Materials cost

$100.00

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.50

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$131.50

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$23.21

Total project goal

$154.71

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $154.71

2 Donors

-$154.71

Donations toward project cost

-$131.50

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$23.21

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 $0.00

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