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Mrs. Hales from Baltimore, MD is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Listening for Sounds

Help me give my students activities to help with phonemic awareness, listening for sounds in words.

  • $325 goal

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Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Students

My students are curious and energetic boys and girls who need extra support to achieve academic goals in both reading and math. They are students in grades Kindergarten through 1, on various levels of mastery so we work in small groups to meet individual needs.

Growing up in the inner-city poses numerous challenges for them, but they are smart children!

Having the supplies to help them learn in a fun and interactive way helps to close the achievement gap that many of the students face.

My Project

When students are young, they learn to listen for the sounds in words. This is called phonemic awareness. As they develop this skill, they begin to notice that some words have the same or different sounds in the beginning, middle, and/or end of a word. They develop their understanding of rhyming words and letter sounds. This skill then builds into their ability to sound out words for reading and eventually spelling.

The activities and materials requested in this project; learning puzzles, sorting houses, and phonemic awards boxes, will provide the students with engaging and fun ways to develop these important skills.

Mrs. Hales
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
AA410X - Match-A-Sound Phonemic Awareness Boxes - Complete Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $149.00 1 $149.00
EE905X - Phonological Awareness Learning Puzzles - Complete Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 1 $49.99
JJ157 - Whats the Rhyme? Sorting Houses • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99

Materials cost

$228.98

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$13.74

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.43

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$276.15

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$48.73

Total project goal

$324.88

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$324.88

2 Donors

-$177.43

Donations toward project cost

-$150.82

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$26.61

match offer

-$147.45

Match offer toward project cost

-$125.33

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$22.12

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$0.00

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