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Ms. Persaud from Bridgeport, CT is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Enlightening English Language Learners

Help me give my students a foundation for learning how to read. The ESL books and kits will be extremely helpful to my ELL students.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Persaud's classroom raised $944

This project is fully funded

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Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Project

My school has many English language learners. Currently we have limited human resources as well as materials to provide adequate service for our students.

This project will provide some very basic foundational learning in terms of books and literacy kits for our students.

Our English language learners, well benefit, not only academically, but socially and emotionally as well. When children excel academically, they feel empowered, more confident. Being an immigrant myself, this is especially close to my heart, I can speak firsthand from my own experiences being an immigrant in this country although it’s been more than 30 years since I migrated to North America, I still remember my elementary school experiences like it happened yesterday. I chose to become an educator to make a difference. I can accomplish this with your generosity in providing these tools. It will certainly help me to accomplish my goal.

Ms. Persaud Beardsley Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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.

Bridgeport, CT 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

50 students impacted 1donor

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Lakeshore Hands-On Reading Skills Teaching Kits - Complete Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $499.00 1 $499.00
Kaplan Early Learning Beginning Readers Books - English & Spanish - Set of 16 • Kaplan Early Learning Company $89.96 1 $89.96
English-Spanish First Little Readers: Guided Reading Level A (Classroom Set): 25 Bilingual Books That are Just the Right Level for Beginning Readers • Amazon Business $67.99 1 $67.99
Learning Letters by Four Dublee - 109 Phonics Letter Tiles with Magnetic Spelling Board and Sound Boxes. Includes Letter Tiles Organizer Bags and Storage Box • Amazon Business $29.95 1 $29.95
hand2mind Reading Rods Prefixes & Suffixes, Word Roots for Kids, Word Building Activities, Spelling Toys, Reading Tools for Kids, Phonemic Awareness and Phonics, Science of Reading Manipulatives • Amazon Business $20.99 1 $20.99
English-Spanish First Little Readers: Guided Reading Level A (Parent Pack): 25 Bilingual Books That are Just the Right Level for Beginning Readers • Amazon Business $17.79 1 $17.79
Aizweb CVC Word Builder,Phonics Games Flash Cards for Preschool Kindergarten Classroom,Montessori Special Education Reading Manipulative Spelling Toy for Learning Activity Teacher School Supplies • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99

Materials cost

$735.67

Vendor shipping charges

$24.95

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.04

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$801.66

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$141.47

Total project goal

$943.13

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$943.13

1 Donor

-$943.13

Donations toward project cost

-$801.66

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$141.47

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$0.00

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