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Ms. Thurman from Memphis, TN is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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The Word in the School

Help me give my students consonant vowel consonant word cards and bingo games to identify their sight words. The skill that most of my kindergarteners need to improve is sight word recognition.

  • $308 goal

This project expired on September 8, 2025.

This project expired on September 8, 2025.

My Project

My Kinders love hands on activities. The best way for them to learn sight words is through some kind of activity. With games like fishing for sight words and sight word bingo, the students will learn to identify the sight word with continuous play. By implementing sight word games in small group activities, the students learn word recognition as well as strategies to use to win the game.

To improve sight word recognition from 25% to 75%, my students will use word games during small group activity at least twice a week.

These games along will give them confidence to read sight words in their weekly reading books as well as in the school building and in their community environment. By using hot dots pens on sight word cards, my students will know right away if they have chosen the correct word by listening to the sound on the hot dots pen. Using pocket charts will allow my students to sound out some of their sight words and build the words. Through a variety of word games, my students will increase their phoneme blending skills and sight word recognition skills.

Ms. Thurman Holmes Rd 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

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Memphis, TN 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

21 students impacted

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Lakeshore Fishing for Sight-Words - Level 1 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 2 $59.98
Educational Insights Hot Dots Sight Words Card Set (9641) • Quill.com $12.23 3 $36.69
Eyewords - Multisensory-Orthographic High Frequency Phonics Teaching Cards - Flash Sound Mapping - Set #1, Words 1-50 • Amazon Business $28.37 1 $28.37
Attractivia Kindergarten Sight Words Magnetic Flash Cards - 52 Sturdy Large Dolch Cards for Literacy of Beginning Readers, Homeschool, Teachers and ESL • Amazon Business $22.85 1 $22.85
Attractivia Pre-K Sight Words Magnetic Flash Cards(Pre-Kindergarten) - 40 Sturdy Large Dolch Cards for Literacy of Beginning Readers, Homeschool, Teachers and ESL, Preschool • Amazon Business $20.10 1 $20.10
CVC Word Building Pocket Chart, EsiPlay Sight Words Flash Cards Kindergarten Classroom Must Haves, Phonics Games Blending Board for Kids Learning Reading and Spelling Education • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
THE BAMBINO TREE Sight Word Bingo Game Level 1 and 2 - Learn to Read Vocabulary for Kindergarten 1st Grade - Dolch's Fry's Words Lists • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
Junior Learning JL263 My First 100 Words • Amazon Business $13.08 1 $13.08
Color By Sight Words Kindergarten Workbook Ages 5-8: Fun Activity Book with Over 100 High Frequency Sight Words for Kids (Grade Level Color by Books for Kids) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99

Materials cost

$225.04

Vendor shipping charges

$3.00

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.38

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$261.42

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$46.13

Total project goal

$307.55

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