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Mrs. Cairns from Crestline, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Reading And Writing, Oh My!

Help me give my students materials such as color overlays and pencil grips to help with their reading and writing.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Cairns's classroom raised $197

This project is fully funded

My Students

The students at our school are extremely enthusiastic learners. They are full of life and their love for learning is catching! They love to have hands-on, engaging learning activities for every subject in school.

From the moment they walk in the door in the morning, they are ready to learn and find out what the day has for them.

Their go-get-'em attitude is infectious. Everyone wants to be them! They have so much fun with their learning and make it their own!

My students are from low socioeconomic households as more than 80% of them qualify for free or reduced-price lunches. School is their place to be themselves and grow as little people!

My Project

Some students have the ability to catch on to reading without the help of visual aides, but others need help. Color overlay reading strips, can help a struggling reader with visualizing the letters correctly and help with fluently reading the text they need to read, especially those diagnosed with dyslexia. Tracking with finger tips is essential to blending letter sounds when reading too! Comprehension blocks will help with revisiting their knowledge of what happened in the stories they read as well.

All students deserve to use tools that will enable the, to learn the best they can.

Struggling writers can benefit from tools such as story starters and pencil grips. Not all students learn the same, so the use of all of these tools will help those who need a little bit of help to enable them to learn the best they can.

Mrs. Cairns Valley of Enchantment 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.

Crestline, CA View local requests

More than three‑quarters 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

30 students impacted 3donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
SB Education 10 x Dyslexia Reading Strips with Coloured Overlays. Reading Tracking Rulers for Dyslexia Irlens, ADHD and Visual Stress • Amazon Business $12.99 2 $25.98
Roylco Reading Highlight Strips • Amazon Business $14.19 1 $14.19
Booshow Pencil Grips - 10 Pack Kids Ergonomic Training Pencil Grippers Preschoolers Handwriting Aid Grip Set Posture Correction Tool(10 Colors) • Amazon Business $5.99 2 $11.98
Learning Resources Writing Prompt Cubes • Amazon Business $11.90 1 $11.90
Learning Resources Reading Comprehension Cubes, Phonics Toy, 6 Colored Foam Cubes, Ages 6+ • Amazon Business $11.50 1 $11.50
A Quick Guide to Reaching Struggling Writers, K-5 (Workshop Help Desk) • Amazon Business $10.50 1 $10.50
Fun Express Martian Costume Fingers (6 Dz) By Fun Express • Amazon Business $9.16 1 $9.16
Scholastic Success With: Grammar, Grade 3 • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Scholastic Success With Reading Tests, Grade 3 (Scholastic Success with Workbooks: Tests Reading) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Scholastic Success with Writing, Grade 3 • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Scholastic Success with Reading Comprehension, Grade 3 • Amazon Business $5.29 1 $5.29
Quick Flip Questions for the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99

Materials cost

$123.46

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$11.30

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.85

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$166.61

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$29.40

Total project goal

$196.01

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$196.01

2 Donors

-$186.01

Donations toward project cost

-$158.11

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$27.90

match offer

-$10.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$8.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$1.50

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$0.00

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