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Ms. Ray from Houston, TX is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Starving First Graders Hungry for Knowledge

My students need reading material, activities and privacy partitions that will help them build the foundation needed to learn to read.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Ray's classroom raised $978

This project is fully funded

My Students

Do you remember what it was like when you first learned how to read? The majority of my students have not quite mastered the adequate foundation needed in order to even begin to learn to read.

I work for a large school district that has recently taken on another school district in North Houston.

The goal is to give these underprivileged students a chance at learning in a fun and safe environment. I teach First Grade to 54 socio-economically disadvantaged students.

My Project

I am ordering various Reading activities that will help guide my students on their path to learning how to read. In order to begin reading students need to know to identify the alphabet letters and sounds. They also have to know the everyday words, sight words, that show up in every type of reading passage. These words do not meet a particular pattern, so the students must know them by sight. I also do not have a big classroom library, so the books I ordered are easy enough, yet challenging enough to help them build confidence in reading.

Being given the opportunity to create this project is so important to me because my students are lacking in every area when it comes to reading.

They need the appropriate materials to get started.

Ms. Ray A.G. Hilliard 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.

Houston, TX View local requests

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

54 students impacted 24donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
JJ426 - Listen & Learn Phonics Activity Program • Lakeshore Learning Materials $199.00 1 $199.00
JJ689 - Privacy Partition - Set of 10 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $24.99 6 $149.94
LL530X - Reading in a Flash! Learning Tubs - K-Gr. 1 - Complete Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $79.99 1 $79.99
TT557 - Lakeshore Nonfiction Sight-Word Readers - Level 1 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 1 $49.99
TT235 - Lakeshore Fiction Sight-Word Readers - Level 1 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 1 $49.99
HH180X - Build A Phrase! Sight-Word Puzzles - Complete Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 1 $49.99
JJ130X - Sight-Word Puzzles - Complete Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 1 $49.99
EE567 - Creating Sight-Word Sentences Center • Lakeshore Learning Materials $39.99 1 $39.99
GG200X - Sound-It-Out Phonics Puzzles - Complete Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99
PP355 - Foundational Skills Teaching Center for Common Core Standards • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99
ED1471 - Rubber Stamps - Lowercase • Lakeshore Learning Materials $14.99 2 $29.98
ED1470 - Rubber Stamps - Uppercase • Lakeshore Learning Materials $14.99 2 $29.98

Materials cost

$788.82

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.83

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$830.65

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$146.59

Total project goal

$977.24

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$977.24

23 Donors

-$974.59

Donations toward project cost

-$830.65

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$143.94

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$2.65

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

$0.00

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