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Ms. Alexander from Chicago, IL is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Special Education: Teach Us How to Read!

My students need Reading online licenses, cards, puzzles, literacy centers, readers, and manipulatives to support their stepping stones towards reading!

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Alexander's classroom raised $1,973

This project is fully funded

My Students

Albert Einstein quotes, "The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size." Therefore, my goal is to provide my diverse learners with meaningful projects and instructional resources to address the disabilities that impede their learning such as Attention-Deficit, Dyslexia, Social-Emotional, and Autism. Their past experiences of failure in school have outweighed their successes as they also deal with social-economic ills within their communities, making the burden to learn more difficult.

Nevertheless, in spite of their circumstances, my students are inquisitive, creative, hopeful and eager to come to school- their safe haven; therefore, they know that their teacher holds their minds dear to her heart and will continue to discover innovative ways to challenge them to think and learn!

Aligning each student to the appropriate instructional resources, my students can grasp concepts through a combination of visual stimuli and usage of hands-on materials as well as respond to intervention through interactive, arts-infused, project-based, hands-on learning activities. With time and investment in exploring how they learn, my students will leave my classroom with a newfound growth mindset!

My Project

My students for the upcoming school year are diverse learners who read two to three years below grade level. Due to learning deficits, reading is seen as a chore and is deemed frustrating as their brain struggles to make sense of how letters form sounds and how to pronounce a combination of sounds to form words.

Once I was informed that by the time a minority child completes the third grade and is unable to read and write, statistics suggest that a life of poverty and crime is their fate, I have made it my mission to ensure my students leave my room with improved reading skills.

I have selected the Failure Free Reading Online Student Seat License (12 months) to support my students who are non-readers to gain word attack skills and learn to red at their own pace. Other resources include First Little Readers - Complete Library, Ready-to-Go Differentiated Literacy Centers: Grade 2: Engaging Centers Designed to Help Every Student Meet the Common Core, Close Reading Comprehension Teaching Center, Boost Comprehension, Small-Group Teaching Center, Sound-It-Out Phonics Puzzles, Word Building Tiles, Learning Resources Sight Word Swat a Sight Word Game and Dyslexia Reading Rulers. High-Interest Intervention Reading Folders will track my students' progress. Thank you for supporting diverse learners who struggle to learn to read!

Ms. Alexander Hoyne Fine Arts and Performing Arts Elementary School Grades 3-5

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

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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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

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Failure Free Reading Online Student Seat License (12 months) • AKJ Education $150.00 5 $750.00
FR150X - First Little Readers - Complete Library • Lakeshore Learning Materials $229.00 1 $229.00
Ready-to-Go Differentiated Literacy Centers: Grade 2: Engaging Centers Designed to Help Every Student Meet the Common Core • Amazon Business $199.99 1 $199.99
LC465X - High-Interest Intervention Reading Folders - Gr. 2-3 - Complete Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $115.00 1 $115.00
AA359 - Close Reading Comprehension Teaching Center - Gr. 3 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 1 $49.99
PP791 - Boost Comprehension! Small-Group Teaching Center - Gr. 1 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 1 $49.99
GG200X - Sound-It-Out Phonics Puzzles • Lakeshore Learning Materials $36.99 1 $36.99
GG959 - Prefix & Suffix Word Building Tiles • Lakeshore Learning Materials $4.99 7 $34.93
Key Education Big Box of Word Chunks Educational Board Game • Amazon Business $22.35 1 $22.35
Junior Learning CVC Tri-Blocks Tub Word Building Set • Amazon Business $21.63 1 $21.63
Child1st Publications SnapWords List A Sight Word Pocket Chart Cards • Amazon Business $19.75 1 $19.75
Child1st Publications SnapWords List B Sight Word Pocket Chart Cards • Amazon Business $19.75 1 $19.75
Key Education Sentence Building • Amazon Business $15.01 1 $15.01
Junior Learning CVC Word Builders Activity Cards • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
GG954 - Word Building Tiles • Lakeshore Learning Materials $4.99 3 $14.97
Learning Resources Sight Word Swat a Sight Word Game, 114 Pieces • Amazon Business $14.89 1 $14.89
10 x Dyslexia Reading Rulers with Colour Overlay. Recommended for Irlens, Dyslexic, ADHD and Visual Stress • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99

Materials cost

$1,622.22

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$24.33

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,676.55

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$295.86

Total project goal

$1,972.41

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,972.41

1 Donor

-$1,972.41

Donations toward project cost

-$1,676.55

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$295.86

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