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Mrs. Burke from Concord, NC is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Working with Word Families

My students need 4 sets of "Word Family" reading books to help them learn how words work and increase their reading fluency.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Burke's classroom raised $299

This project is fully funded

My Students

Help us learn to read better and faster!! I teach my students in differentiated small groups all day long. One of the things that we find ourselves lacking is materials for quality reading group time. We need readable texts with which we can practice our new skills.

I teach in a Title 1 school that serves a wide variety of students.

We have many students who are learning English for the first time. We serve 50% of our students free or reduced priced breakfast and lunch. I teach students who come from good families who only want the best for their kids. My students work hard to meet my high expectations and know that they have my support and the support of their families.

My Project

My reading groups have run through the reading materials that we have available to us. We need new books that are on their reading levels to use in our guided reading groups. I found a set of word family readers that will be perfect for this purpose. Not only will these books help them with their new reading skills, but also with understanding how words work. Each set of books focuses on a particular word family. So, once they understand how that word family works and makes many similar rhyming words, they will be able to read the text fluently while their brains work quickly to change the beginning sounds on the word family words in the text. I think these materials will be just what my students need to push them to the next level in reading.

This project is important to us because without quality texts to read during reading group time, my teaching and their practice is less effective and efficient.

We need these books to help us continue to have quality reading group sessions that move them along in their reading progress.

Mrs. Burke William Irvin Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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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 4donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
EE667 - Lakeshore Word Family Readers • Lakeshore Learning $49.95 4 $199.80

Materials cost

$199.80

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$15.58

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.00

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$253.38

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$44.71

Total project goal

$298.09

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$298.09

1 Donor

-$91.45

Donations toward project cost

-$82.45

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$9.00

match offer

-$201.09

Match offer toward project cost

-$170.93

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$30.16

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$5.55

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

$0.00

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