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Mrs. Patterson from Pawleys Isl., SC is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Decodable Books for Reading Success

Help me give my students decodable books and high-interest independent reading books that will strengthen their reading skills and fuel their love of reading.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Patterson's classroom raised $277

This project is fully funded

My Project

If we want students to learn to love reading, they need to feel like successful readers. In order for students to feel successful when they read, we need to offer our students books that help them feel that success. This includes decodable books and accessible high-interest books that students can read and enjoy reading.

Decodable books allow students to practice reading connected texts using previously taught phonics skills.

Students are able to "decode" the text, using familiar phonics skills to read words instead of relying on patterns, pictures, and memorized sight words to guess what the book is saying. It's amazing watching a student carefully "tap out" sounds to words, successfully read a page, and wear the biggest grin as they experience what it is like to read a book!

Thank you for helping my students become confident consumers of books in our classroom, and spark that life-long love of reading!

Mrs. Patterson Waccamaw Elementary School Grades 3-5

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Pawleys Isl., SC View local requests

Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

20 students impacted 3donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Nonfiction Phonics Readers SET 1: Short Vowels, Blends & More (Single-Copy Set): 25 Motivating Decodable Books That Reinforce Key Reading Skills • Amazon Business $23.99 1 $23.99
Nonfiction Phonics Readers Set 2: Long Vowels, Digraphs & More (Single-Copy Set): 25 Motivating Decodable Books That Reinforce Key Reading Skills • Amazon Business $23.99 1 $23.99
Laugh-a-Lot Phonics: Blends & Digraphs (Parent Pack): 12 Engaging Books That Teach Key Decoding Skills to Help New Readers Soar • Amazon Business $21.99 1 $21.99
Laugh-A-Lot Phonics: Long Vowels (Parent Pack): 12 Engaging Books That Teach Key Decoding Skills to Help New Readers Soar • Amazon Business $18.88 1 $18.88
The Science of Reading Decodable Readers: Vowel Teams • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
The Yak Pack: Comics & Phonics: Book 3: Learn to read decodable blend words (The Yak Pack – Phonics & Sight Words) • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Kingston and the Magic Stone: A Decodable Chapter Book (The Science of Reading Decodable Readers) • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
The Yak Pack: Comics & Phonics: Book 2: Learn to read decodable digraph words (The Yak Pack – Phonics & Sight Words) • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Fox Hunt: Decodable Chapter Book for Kids with Dyslexia (The Kents' Quest) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Sam Is Stuck: Decodable Chapter Book (The Kents' Quest) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Spelling Pen - In Elf Land: (Dyslexie Font) Decodable Chapter Books for Kids with Dyslexia • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
D.A.R.E Detectives: The Mystery on Lovett Lane (Dyslexia Font) (Dyslexia Reading Books for Kids Age 8-12) • Amazon Business $9.90 1 $9.90
Sally the Sloth: A Decodable Bedtime Story (The Science of Reading Decodable Readers) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99

Materials cost

$188.67

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$13.30

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.83

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$234.80

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$41.44

Total project goal

$276.24

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$276.24

2 Donors

-$134.10

Donations toward project cost

-$117.40

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$16.70

match offer

-$138.12

Match offer toward project cost

-$117.40

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$20.72

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$4.02

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$0.00

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