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Ms. OCarroll from Reno, NV is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Read by Grade 3: Teaching 2nd Graders Decoding Skills

Help me give my students foundational skills in phonics and decoding so they can learn to read!

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. OCarroll's classroom raised $491

This project is fully funded

My Project

Second-grade students need strong decoding skills in order to read on their own. The decoding kit, word match, and other items requested will help me explicitly teach these decoding skills through small group instruction and engaging reading centers. Some of the products focus on hearing the sounds in the words and others will help students to put those sounds into the letters. Other products focus on allowing students to use these decoding skills in text.

Through this project, students will be able to engage in hands-on, effective phonics activities so they can read on their own!

Ms. OCarroll Huffaker Elementary School Grades PreK-2 Reno, NV View local requests 20 students impacted 1donor

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Lakeshore Accelerate Learning Phonics & Decoding Kit • Lakeshore Learning Materials $89.99 1 $89.99
Lakeshore Touch & Read Phonics Word Match - Complete Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $89.50 1 $89.50
hand2mind Elkonin Boxes Magnetic Dry Erase Boards Set, Phonemic Awareness, Speech Therapy Materials & Lowercase Alphabet Chips, Toddler Learning Letters for Spelling • Amazon Business $75.98 1 $75.98
Junior Learning Magic-E Objects - Magnetic Learning Foam Objects, Multi & Junior Learning JL649 Blend Objects, Multi & Junior Learning CVC Objects Rainbow Set of 40, JL641, 2.36 Hx5.9 Lx7.8 W, Foam • Amazon Business $38.96 1 $38.96
Lakeshore Phonics Word Builder Magnetic Kit • Lakeshore Learning Materials $32.99 1 $32.99
Charge into Reading Stage 3: Digraph Decodable Reader Set | Beginning Readers, Ages 4+ • Amazon Business $19.99 1 $19.99
Charge into Reading Stage 4: Long Vowel VCE Decodable Reader Set | Beginning Readers, Ages 4+ (Charge into Reading Decodable Readers) • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Charge into Reading Decodable Books (Stage 1): 5 Short Vowel Decodable Readers to Help Kindergarten and First Grade Beginning Readers Learn to Read (One Short Vowel Sound Per Book) • Amazon Business $16.19 1 $16.19

Materials cost

$381.59

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.72

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$417.31

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$73.64

Total project goal

$490.95

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$490.95

1 Donor

-$490.95

Donations toward project cost

-$417.31

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$73.64

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$0.00

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