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Mrs. Modrow from Chattanooga, TN is requesting professional development through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Professional development

Soar into the Science of Reading

I need Orton Gillingham word lists and other books to help me teach students how to read.

  • $214 goal

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My Project

As we learn more about how the brain works and learns to read, we need to change our practices. Research shows that about 30% of students learn to read with any method of teaching, 50% of students learn to read when they have explicit and direct instruction in foundational skills. 15% need more time and more support, and 5% will always struggle because of a learning disability. I have been teaching those last 20% how to read as older students who didn't learn when 80% of their peers did.

My students are inquisitive when I teach the phonics rules and ask "Why doesn't a particular word follow the pattern?," and I don't always have the answer.

I instead say things like "English is a hard language to learn.

I want to be able to give them the words that do follow the patterns to increase their practice and give them the reasons why certain words don't follow the rules. These books will help me deepen my understanding and prepare me for the answers to my students' ever-inquiring minds. There are four books that will give me all the words that follow the phonetic pattern and other books that help me understand how English works in order to teach my students who struggle how to be better readers.

Mrs. Modrow
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Sounding Out the Sight Words: An Alternative to Rote Memorization • Amazon Business $29.99 1 $29.99
The Orton-Gillingham Word List Dictionary Volume 4: Syllables • Amazon Business $29.95 1 $29.95
Orton-Gillingham Word List Dictionary Volume 3: Soft C & G, R-Controlled, W-Combinations, Cle, Silent letters, Complex Word Teams, -ED, -ES, -EST (Orton-Gillingham Word List Dictionary Series) • Amazon Business $19.95 1 $19.95
Orton-Gillingham Word List Dictionary Volume 2 (Orton-Gillingham Word List Dictionary Series) • Amazon Business $19.95 1 $19.95
Orton-Gillingham Word List Dictionary Volume 1: Consonants, Short Vowels, Blends, FLOSS, End Blends, Compound Words, Closed Syllable Exceptions • Amazon Business $19.95 1 $19.95
The ABC's and All Their Tricks - paperback • Amazon Business $16.19 1 $16.19
Uncovering the Logic of English: A Common-Sense Approach to Reading, Spelling, and Literacy • Amazon Business $13.49 1 $13.49

Materials cost

$149.47

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.24

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$181.71

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$32.07

Total project goal

$213.78

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$213.78

2 Donors

-$96.11

Donations toward project cost

-$90.86

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$5.25

match offer

-$106.88

Match offer toward project cost

-$90.85

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$16.03

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$10.78

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$0.00

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