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Mrs. Olcese from Chicago, IL is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Learning To Read Is Fun!

My students need reading games, language lacers, rhyme sorting boxes, and other fun activities to spark their interest in learning to read!

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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

Have you ever been frustrated trying to do something that is very difficult for you? That's an unfortunate feeling that many of my students feel every day.

I work with small groups of students who are struggling to read at the same rate at their classmates.

Every day, I work with small groups of 3-7 students from first through fifth grade and focus on helping them with their biggest hurdles in learning to read and understanding the connections between words and meanings of what is written on the paper. Many of these students suffer from low self-esteem because they are aware that they are not reading as well as their peers. Almost 80% of these students are English Language Learners who really need the extra support that they are unable to receive at home.

My Project

The materials that I am requesting are fun, colorful manipulatives and games that will help excite the students about reading. My students need reading games, language lacers, rhyme sorting boxes, and other fun activities to spark their interest in learning to read! By having items that they perceive as fun and hands-on, they will be eager to come to my classroom and focus on reading. Because many of my students have had such negative experiences with struggling to learn how to read, these games would give them a new enthusiasm for reading. I want my students to learn to love reading and look forward to coming to my classroom and using these materials to become readers. I hope that this will spark a lifelong love of reading in each of my students who have previously only experienced frustration and disappointment. These games and resources would allow my students to have fun with words and begin to appreciate the joy and excitement that can be associated with reading.

This project is important because all students deserve to have a good education with all of the resources that we need.

The majority of students at my school come from homes where there isn't a lot of extra money to be spent on books and educational resources. The materials being requested in this project would help to give my students a boost in their learning.

Mrs. Olcese Ruben Salazar Bilingual Center Grades 3-5

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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.

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Chicago, IL 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 5donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
GG885 - Kooky Carnival: Context Clues Game • Lakeshore Learning $24.95 1 $24.95
GG883 - Pirate Island: Reading for Details Game • Lakeshore Learning $24.95 1 $24.95
FF223 - Phonics Language Lacers • Lakeshore Learning $19.95 1 $19.95
RR265 - Word Family Sliders Set • Lakeshore Learning $29.95 1 $29.95
JJ157 - What’s the Rhyme? Sorting Houses • Lakeshore Learning $29.95 1 $29.95
LL775X - Let’s Talk! Language Boxes - Complete Set • Lakeshore Learning $39.95 1 $39.95
FF224 - Compound Words Language Lacers • Lakeshore Learning $19.95 1 $19.95

Materials cost

$189.65

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.84

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$222.49

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$39.26

Total project goal

$261.75

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $261.75

3 Donors

-$161.75

Donations toward project cost

-$137.49

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$24.26

match offer

-$100.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$85.00

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$15.00

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 $0.00

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