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Ms. Vazquez-Garcia from Chicago, IL is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Interventions Are Essential for Struggling Bilingual Readers

Help me give my students a chance to become good readers with El libro de estrategias de lectura: Guia completa para formar lectores habiles. We also need a laminator set, Spanish syllable slides and learns, flip books, and flash cards.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Vazquez-Garcia's classroom raised $628

This project is fully funded

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

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 Students

My students live in the vibrant Gage Park neighborhood and they bring their best effort daily. They have so many stories to share ranging from how they are in a bike group to how their parents are opening up a small restaurant in the community. I love that my students remind me of myself as a student also attending their elementary school and living in their same neighborhood. They always want to know how our school and community has changed since I was a kid.

My students are inquisitive, smart, and assertive.

They have robust personalities which makes for great, invigorating conversations.

My Project

The students that I am servicing in small groups four times per week are struggling readers and they will fail their reading class without any targeted interventions. Therefore, with these materials I will be able to make reading more accessible to these students. I will be starting by simply having them build one syllable words then two and beyond through fun games and activities.

I will use the teacher resources to build the best plan for that specific group and each individual child.

I will continue to pull small groups but these resources will allow me to create and plan for more targeted instruction because I will have all the necessary materials.

Ms. Vazquez-Garcia Sawyer Elementary School - Spaulding Building 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.

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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

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Spanish Syllable Slide and Learns • Amazon Business $45.30 1 $45.30
Continuo de la lectoescritura, Expanded Edition: Instrumento para la evaluacion, planificacion y ensenanza • Amazon Business $45.00 1 $45.00
Really Good Stuff Spanish Syllable Flip Books – Build Spanish Reading Fluency – Help Students Read Two-Syllable Words, Recognize Open Syllables – Aligned with Common Core and State Standards • Amazon Business $43.75 1 $43.75
El libro de estrategias de escritura: Guia completa para formar escritores habiles • Amazon Business $43.04 1 $43.04
5 in 1 Blusmart Laminator Set, A4, Trimmer, Corner Rounder, 20 Laminating Pouches, Photo Frames, Black • Amazon Business $39.99 1 $39.99
Learning Resources Juego de Palabras Spanish Reading Rods Word Game • Amazon Business $39.99 1 $39.99
El libro de estrategias de lectura: Guia completa para formar lectores habiles • Amazon Business $38.59 1 $38.59
Teaching Reading and Writing in Spanish and English in Bilingual and Dual Language Classrooms, Second Edition • Amazon Business $33.56 1 $33.56
Biliteracy from the Start: Literacy Squared in Action • Amazon Business $32.92 1 $32.92
Scholastic Professional The Next Step Forward in Guided Reading • Amazon Business $30.90 1 $30.90
Spanish Syllable Puzzles • Amazon Business $28.24 1 $28.24
AmazonBasics Clear Thermal Laminating Plastic Paper Laminator Sheets - 9 Inch x 11.5 Inch, 200-Pack • Amazon Business $17.84 1 $17.84
Diset – Toy Educational Las SILABAS (68962) • Amazon Business $11.76 1 $11.76
Trend Enterprises Verbos Skill Drill Flash Cards • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99

Materials cost

$460.87

Vendor shipping charges

$35.25

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.91

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$533.03

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$94.06

Total project goal

$627.09

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$627.09

4 Donors

-$376.03

Donations toward project cost

-$319.63

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$56.40

match offer

-$251.06

Match offer toward project cost

-$213.40

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$37.66

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