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Ms. Byrd from Philadelphia, PA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Developing our Words Their Way

My students need phonics workbooks to learn to develop phonics and phonemic awareness skills.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Byrd's classroom raised $166

This project is fully funded

My Students

Developing into readers can be a tough process. We have to think of creative ways to ease the children into it without making them struggle.

30 urban city children from a variety of ethnic backgrounds come together to make up this Kindergarten classroom.

Our elementary is located in Pennsylvania. Our students have a variety of academic needs and abilities. They love learning working and learning with technology (I think this reminds them of their video games :) )

My Project

Word Their Way is a practical instructional approach to phonics and phonemic awareness. The children will develop these skills by doing letter and words sorts and then phonics games. The skills will progress as their knowledge base grows. These activities can be preformed whole group or small group for more intense instruction.

This project is important because I am developing the students academic foundation.

This will help them develop into proficient readers and writers. I have tried portions of this program in previous years and it was a success. I would love to have the whole program to use, the possibilities of academic growth are exciting!

Ms. Byrd Henry W Lawton Elementary School Grades PreK-2

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Philadelphia, PA 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

30 students impacted 3donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction (5th Edition) (Words Their Way Series) • Amazon $44.85 1 $44.85
Words Their Way: Word Sorts for Within Word Pattern Spellers (2nd Edition) • Amazon $22.17 1 $22.17
Words Their Way: Word Sorts for Letter Name - Alphabetic Spellers (2nd Edition) (Three-hole Punched) • Amazon $21.74 1 $21.74
Words Their Way Letter and Picture Sorts for Emergent Spellers (2nd Edition) • Amazon $20.70 1 $20.70

Materials cost

$109.46

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.64

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$141.10

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$24.90

Total project goal

$166.00

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$166.00

2 Donors

-$91.00

Donations toward project cost

-$77.35

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$13.65

match offer

-$75.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$63.75

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$11.25

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$0.00

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