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Ms. Metz from Phoenix, AZ is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Light the Pathway to Reading

My students need Reading & Writing Instant Learning Centers, Can Do! Reading Games, Sight-Words Flash Cards, Sight-Words Steps, Reading in a Flash! Sight-Words Learning Tub, Flip & Read Sight-Word Sentences, Magnetic and Creating Sight-Words Sentences Centers, Write & Wipe Sight-Words Practice Cards, and one Interactive Language Notebook Reproducibles Activities.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Metz's classroom raised $1,105

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 Students

The students in my classroom have wonderful character traits and are an asset to the world they live in. My classroom is a Special Education Self-Contained Classroom filled with eleven smiling faces. Behind those smiles, however, are many intellectual disabilities accounting for low academic skills and frustration. Our class centers on academics and social skills to make our students successful for the future.

The neighborhood is very supportive of all the children at school especially my special needs students.

Students in other grade levels help make my special students feel needed and positive about themselves. Our community comes together to help each other be successful.

My Project

Reading is an important skill for special needs students to learn as early as possible in their education. The materials I have selected will allow my special needs students to become successful readers to be able to go on and get a job later in life in the community they live in. I'm requesting Reading & Writing Instant Learning Centers, Can Do! Reading Games, Sight-Words Flash Cards, Sight-Words Steps, Reading in a Flash! Sight-Words Learning Tub, Flip & Read Sight-Word Sentences, Magnetic and Creating Sight-Words Sentences Centers, Write & Wipe Sight-Words Practice Cards, and one Interactive Language Notebook Reproducibles Activities.

We are planning to use the sight word cards to reinforce words through a game called flashlight sight words.

The sight word centers, magnetic boards, and sight word activities will also be used to reinforce sight words and reading skills. The students reading skills will increase daily with the use of these especially thought out materials that I planned for in our classroom project.

Special needs students are an asset to their community and need to be able to read and be successful to have a career in the future.

My students will benefit from the sight word materials chosen and will allow them to be stronger readers and life-long learners in their community.

Ms. Metz Western Valley Elementary School 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
LL580X - Reading & Writing Instant Learning Centers - Set 2 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $229.00 1 $229.00
HH410X - Can Do! Reading Games - Complete Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $149.00 1 $149.00
DV480X - Sight-Words Flash Cards - Complete Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $22.99 4 $91.96
GG737 - Sight-Word Steps • Lakeshore Learning Materials $39.99 2 $79.98
LL533 - Reading in a Flash! Sight-Words Learning Tub • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 2 $59.98
FS489 - Kid-Sized Flashlights - Set of 6 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $19.99 3 $59.97
HH706 - Flip & Read Sight-Word Sentences • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 1 $49.99
EE567 - Creating Sight-Word Sentences Center • Lakeshore Learning Materials $39.99 1 $39.99
FF468 - Magnetic Sight-Word Sentence Board • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99
DD105 - Black Write & Wipe Markers - Thin-Line - Set of 4 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $3.99 5 $19.95
EE391 - Write & Wipe Sight-Words Practice Cards • Lakeshore Learning Materials $16.99 1 $16.99
AR800 - Interactive Language Notebook Reproducible Activities - Kindergarten • Lakeshore Learning Materials $9.99 1 $9.99

Materials cost

$836.79

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$59.83

3rd party payment processing fee

$12.55

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$939.17

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$165.74

Total project goal

$1,104.91

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$1,104.91

2 Donors

-$1,084.91

Donations toward project cost

-$922.17

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$162.74

match offer

-$20.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$17.00

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$3.00

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$0.00

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