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Mrs. Tillotson from Eagle Mountain, UT is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Close the Gap With Informational Text

Help me give my students the ability to use informational text in response to reading, writing, and retell closing the gap and increasing progress monitoring scores and benchmark assessments.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Tillotson's classroom raised $953

This project is fully funded

My Students

I work with low-achieving reading students who because of Covid have fallen behind. I work within the 1st - 3rd-grade teams with small groups of students who have missing core skills such as fluency, decoding, retelling, accuracy, spelling, and writing.

I love that they feel successful when they are in small groups with like students and that they are willing to try and explore in a safe space.

We are working with them to close the gap with fluency practice, direct instruction, hands-on learning, extensive progress monitoring, and lots of love and support.

My Project

I am responsible for progress monitoring and benchmark assessments for 1st-3rd and have seen that my students struggle most with fluency and retelling while using informational text. Nonfiction literature reads differently than fiction and students have a hard time picking the main idea of the piece. They also struggle more with the vocabulary due to a lack of background knowledge and exposure to this type of text.

I hope to expose them to high-interest nonfiction/informational text in engaging ways while still refining the above skills.

Games, books, hands-on manipulatives will help with this goal. Although the text focus is nonfiction I feel we are able to continue to support things like fluency, retelling, accuracy, always working to close the gap.

Mrs. Tillotson Ranches Academy Grades PreK-2 Eagle Mountain, UT View local requests 50 students impacted 1donor

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
FB710X - Eyewitness Nonfiction Readers - Complete Series • Lakeshore Learning Materials $189.00 1 $189.00
FF424 - Reading Comprehension Activity Stations • Lakeshore Learning Materials $79.99 1 $79.99
PP667 - Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Practice Cards - Gr 2-3 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $69.99 1 $69.99
Comprehension Game Trio: Main Idea, Summary & Inference - Grades 2-3 • Amazon Business $59.34 1 $59.34
Really Good Stuff 306888 Common Core Reading Comprehension Inference Cubes • Amazon Business $42.68 1 $42.68
DD216 - Reading Comprehension Instant Learning Center • Lakeshore Learning Materials $39.99 1 $39.99
FF479 - Fluency Comprehension Partner Scripts - Gr 3-4 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $39.99 1 $39.99
FF478 - Fluency Comprehension Partner Scripts - Gr 1-2 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $39.99 1 $39.99
Really Good Stuff Primary Comprehension Cubes • Amazon Business $36.62 1 $36.62
GG954 - Word Building Tiles • Lakeshore Learning Materials $5.99 6 $35.94
PP579 - Match Sort Phonics Quickies - Gr 2-3 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99
LL862 - Nonfiction Comprehension Quickie Cards • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99
HH131 - Can Do Phonemic Awareness Game - Gr 1-2 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $19.99 1 $19.99
EE568 - Roll Read Word Family Game • Lakeshore Learning Materials $19.99 1 $19.99
Richardy 10Pcs/Set A4 English Phonics Language Arts Skills Posters Alphabet Wall Chart Classroom Decoration Classroom Organization Teaching Aids 11.69X8.26 Inch… • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
Skill-By-Skill Comprehension Practice (Reading Level 1-3) | Reproducible Activity Book • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Comprehension Skills: Short Passages for Close Reading: Grade 3 • Amazon Business $8.29 1 $8.29

Materials cost

$767.76

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.52

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$809.28

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$142.81

Total project goal

$952.09

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $952.09

1 Donor

-$952.09

Donations toward project cost

-$809.28

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$142.81

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

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