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Mrs. DeMarzio from Springfield, MA is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Promoting Phonological and Alphabet Awareness: Activities to Enhance These Skills

Help me give my students access to these amazing phonological and alphabet resources.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. DeMarzio's classroom raised $442

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

I teach preschool in a low-income inner city. My students range from ages 3 years to 5 years old. They come to school every day eager to explore and learn. My classroom is considered an inclusion room, so I have half students with special needs and the other half are peers.

Although my students are little, they have enormous personalities and an even a bigger urge to learn.

I love my job because I am able to help these little people get a jump start on learning about the world, their friends, and themselves.

My Project

These kid-friendly and age-appropriate activities are the perfect materials to help my students boost their phonological awareness and alphabet skills. Using products like the Learning Letters Activity Centers will make learning these skills more fun and will keep the students engaged in the activity.

Research shows that a child's level of phonemic awareness is held to be the strongest single determinant of the success he or she will experience when learning to read.

Exposing and building on these skills at a young age will benefit my students in the long run.

Please consider donating to my project so my students will have exciting and engaging materials to help them master these important and fundamental skills.

Mrs. DeMarzio Margaret C. Ells School Grades PreK-2

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.

Springfield, MA 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 11donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
LC740X - Learning Letters Activity Centers - Complete Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $69.99 1 $69.99
EE930X - Early Language Activity Boxes - Complete Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $69.99 1 $69.99
FF196 - Phonemic Awareness Folder Game Library - Pre K-K • Lakeshore Learning Materials $39.99 1 $39.99
FF197 - Alphabet Folder Game Library - Pre K-K • Lakeshore Learning Materials $39.99 1 $39.99
EE332 - Float & Find Alphabet Bubbles • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99
PP949 - Positional Words Resource Box • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99
JJ157 - What’s the Rhyme? Sorting Houses • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99
EE290 - Design & Build Water Blocks • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99

Materials cost

$339.92

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.10

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$375.02

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$66.18

Total project goal

$441.20

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $441.20

10 Donors

-$436.79

Donations toward project cost

-$375.02

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$61.77

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$4.41

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 $0.00

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