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Ms. Vandeventer from Hartford CT is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Tools For Knowledge, To Get Us to College!

My students need 10 phonics, word family, and reading center materials to help boost their reading skills.

  • $376 goal

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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

I teach 21 lively, motivated students in a high-needs community. My school is struggling to increase reading scores and, as our funding has decreased over the years, this has been difficult to do with less resources.

My students have set their reading goals high. They each want to reach their own personal goals and a class average of 2 levels higher than the 1st grade goal. In order to achieve these goals we need high level, engaging, and research based literacy centers.

Centers allow students to work both independently and collaboratively with their classmates on a variety of essential reading skills. However, with decreased funding and very little (if any) resources, these literacy centers are not always available. Since students work in these centers daily the materials must be fun and educational to keep the students engaged while learning. These materials will do just that.

You can help my students reach their reading goals! These materials will greatly advance the learning of my students. With these materials I can spend less instructional planning time on creating centers and more time teaching my students! You can help make the achievement gap cease to exist for my students through your donation to this proposal

Ms. Vandeventer
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
DD552 - Matching Word Families Learning Center • Lakeshore Learning $19.95 1 $19.95
DD553 - Building Word Families Learning Center • Lakeshore Learning $19.95 1 $19.95
DD235 - Phonics Instant Learning Center • Lakeshore Learning $19.95 1 $19.95
GG759 - Word Building Fun Activity Center • Lakeshore Learning $29.95 1 $29.95
GG765 - Activity Stand • Lakeshore Learning $16.95 1 $16.95
EE614 - Word Wands • Lakeshore Learning $19.95 1 $19.95
DD851 - Beginner’s Reading Trackers - Set of 30 • Lakeshore Learning $12.99 1 $12.99
JJ201 - Phonics Sounds Overhead Tiles • Lakeshore Learning $29.95 1 $29.95
EE187 - Sight-Words Instant Learning Center • Lakeshore Learning $19.95 1 $19.95
DD750X - Read, Write & Spell Sight-Word Centers - Complete Set • Lakeshore Learning $69.50 1 $69.50

Materials cost

$259.09

Vendor shipping charges

$25.91

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.48

Fulfillment labor & materials

$17.00

Total project cost

$308.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$67.61

Total project goal

$375.61

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$375.61

3 Donors

-$362.35

Donations toward project cost

-$308.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$54.35

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$13.26

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$0.00

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