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Ms. Speech from Vacaville, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Fun Phonics and Decodables Build Literacy!

Help me give my students more high-interest phonics book sets to build literacy!

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Speech's classroom raised $284

This project is fully funded

My Students

The preschool to 6th grade students I support have some of the biggest hearts I have ever met! We are a small-ish school with big hearts for inclusion and a love for learning.

The students I support have a variety of speech-sound and language-based needs.

We try to incorporate literacy into everything we do together!

My Project

Having fun, high-interest reading materials makes reading fun and successful! To bridge the gap amongst speaking, listening, reading, and writing, boosting up phonics (connecting the speech sounds we hear to the letters that represent them) is so important!

To paraphrase Dr. Louisa Moats, literacy expert, "Speaking is natural, reading and writing are not and must be explicitly taught."

You can help support our PreK-6 grade students' literacy by helping build our collection of phonics readers and decodables! Having a variety of high-interest topics makes reading accessible to all ages, from earlier to more mature readers.

Ms. Speech Hemlock 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.

Vacaville, CA View local requests

More than half of 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 5donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Phonics Tales!: 25 Read-Aloud Storybooks That Teach Key Phonics Skills • Amazon Business $69.54 1 $69.54
Usborne Phonics Readers - 12 illustrated Books Box Set Collection • Amazon Business $49.97 1 $49.97
Sixty Decodable Books For Beginning Readers: Complete Set of Sixty, Sequential, High-Interest books for Kindergarten and First Grade Students • Amazon Business $40.00 1 $40.00
Phonics Readers Boxed Set 1 Consonants and Short Vowels - a, i, o (19 Books) • Amazon Business $19.99 1 $19.99
Learn to Read: Phonics Storybook: 25 Simple Stories & Activities for Beginner Readers • Amazon Business $11.47 1 $11.47

Materials cost

$190.97

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$17.47

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.86

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$241.30

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$42.58

Total project goal

$283.88

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$283.88

4 Donors

-$234.38

Donations toward project cost

-$199.22

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$35.16

match offer

-$49.50

Match offer toward project cost

-$42.08

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$7.42

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$0.00

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