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Mrs. Battcher from Gardnerville, NV is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Learning to Read: One Letter at a Time

Help me give my students the opportunity to read books that follow specific phonics patterns that they are learning about.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Battcher's classroom raised $598

This project is fully funded

My Project

I teach kindergarten through 5th grade students with developmental delays or learning disabilities. My beginning readers are learning to read through Science of Reading methodology. This includes extensive phonics instruction using orthographic mapping and a specific scope and sequence.

I’d love to give my students the opportunity to practice specific phonics skills while reading books at their level.

My students often struggle to find interesting books that they can decode independently. My hope is that they will find success when reading these decodable books, and therefore find a love for reading.

Mrs. Battcher Gene L Scarselli Elementary School Grades 3-5 Gardnerville, NV View local requests

More than a third 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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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Decodable Readers: 20 Phonics Review Phonics Books for Beginning Readers Ages 4-7 Developing Decoders (Set 12) • Amazon Business $34.99 1 $34.99
Decodable Readers: 15 Beginning and Final Blends Phonics Books for Beginning Readers Ages 4-7 Developing Decoders (Set 6) • Amazon Business $29.99 1 $29.99
Decodable Readers: 15 Short Vowel Phonics Decodable Books for Beginning Readers Ages 4-7 Developing Decoders (Set 3) • Amazon Business $29.99 1 $29.99
Decodable Readers: 15 Long Vowels with Final Silent E Phonics Books for Beginning Readers Ages 4-7 Developing Decoders (Set 7) • Amazon Business $29.99 1 $29.99
Decodable Readers: 15 Digraphs and Short Vowel Review Phonics Books for Beginning Readers Ages 4-7 Developing Decoders (Set 4) • Amazon Business $29.99 1 $29.99
Decodable Readers: 15 Beginning Blends Phonics Decodable Books for Beginning Readers Ages 4-7 Developing Decoders (Set 5) • Amazon Business $29.99 1 $29.99
Decodable Readers: 15 Long Vowel Teams Phonics Books for Beginning Readers Ages 4-7 Developing Decoders (Set 8) • Amazon Business $29.99 1 $29.99
Decodable Readers: 15 Long Vowel Teams Phonics Books for Beginning Readers Ages 4-7 Developing Decoders Set 9 • Amazon Business $29.99 1 $29.99
Decodable Readers: 15 Diphthongs Phonics Books for Beginning Readers Ages 4-7 Developing Decoders (Set 11) • Amazon Business $29.99 1 $29.99
Decodable Readers: 15 Short Vowel Phonics Decodable Books for Beginning Readers Ages 4-7 Developing Decoders (Set 1) • Amazon Business $29.99 1 $29.99
Junior Learning Decodable Readers Sound Families R-Controlled Non-Fiction Phase 5.5, Vowel Sounds, Learn to Read, Easy decodable Texts, with 12 Books, for Ages 5+, Grade K • Amazon Business $29.99 1 $29.99
The Science of Reading Decodable Texts: 50 Short Vowel Texts (The Science of Reading Decodable Books) • Amazon Business $19.99 1 $19.99
The Science of Reading Decodable Readers: Consonant Blends Book 2 (The Science of Reading Decodable Books) • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
The Science of Reading Decodable Readers: Consonant Blends (The Science of Reading Decodable Books) • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
The Science of Reading Decodable Books: Ending Blends Decodable Stories for Reading Intervention for Students with Dyslexia • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
The Science of Reading Decodable Texts: Book 2 (The Science of Reading Decodable Books) • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
The Science of Reading Decodable Readers: Vowel Teams (The Science of Reading Decodable Books) • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
The Science of Reading Decodable Books: Controled R and Bossy R Text Set for Kindergarten, First Grade, Second Grade, and Third Grade • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
The Science of Reading Decodable Books: Silent E Rule • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
The Science of Reading Decodable readers: Decodable Reading for Homeschool and the Classroom (The Science of Reading Decodable Books) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99

Materials cost

$470.80

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.06

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$507.86

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$89.62

Total project goal

$597.48

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$597.48

1 Donor

-$597.48

Donations toward project cost

-$507.86

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$89.62

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$0.00

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