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Ms. Barnes from Jackson, MS is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Ready to Read!

My students need literacy-based file folder games for independent reading practice.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Barnes's classroom raised $200

This project is fully funded

My Students

Help my emergent readers build their confidence and independence with literacy-based, file folder games.

My students are a lively bunch of five and six-year old children.

They are eager to learn. These emergent readers need age appropriate literature in order to become successful, independent readers. Unfortunately, 98% of my students receive free or reduced breakfast and lunch, which indicates that those students are also highly impoverished. This is just a glimpse of the socioeconomic status of the entire student body. This disturbing data along with education budget cuts means that my students lack quality resources that are vital to their academic success.

My Project

In my kindergarten classroom, students spend a great deal of their day in learning literacy across the content areas. It is important that my students learn to read in order to meet grade-level benchmarks. To meet these needs, I have ordered file folder games that focus on phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and text comprehension. These games will integrate independent practice into our reading center. My students will build sight vocabulary, have modeled phrasing and fluency, be exposed to a variety of story structures, develop independence, and so on.

Your donation will provide some much needed resources in the areas of Language Arts and Literacy.

With your support, my students will confidence-building experiences in our reading center. Having proper resources in effective learning centers will offer my students purposeful, hands-on learning; promote engaging thinking and problem-solving; allow for decision-making and choice; prompt open-ended responses; allow children to work independently, collaboratively, and successfully.

Ms. Barnes G.N. Smith Elementary School Grades PreK-2

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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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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

18 students impacted 10donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
PP520X - Reading Skills Folder Game Libraries - K-Gr. 1 - Complete Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $129.00 1 $129.00

Materials cost

$129.00

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$9.03

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.94

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$169.97

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$29.99

Total project goal

$199.96

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$199.96

7 Donors

-$193.22

Donations toward project cost

-$169.97

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$23.25

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$6.74

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$0.00

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