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These resources allow students to practice essential skills such as phonemic awareness, decoding, encoding, and automatic word recognition with the repetition and support they need.\r\n\r\nDuring small-group lessons, I have already seen students show more confidence as they tap, blend, build, and read new words with the materials you helped provide. The structure and consistency of UFLI paired with these tools has made a noticeable difference in their engagement and success. For many of my students, this is the first time they feel like reading is something they can do.\r\n\r\nYour support is helping build strong foundational literacy skills—skills that open the door to future academic growth. 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The prizes and motivational tools you funded are already helping students stay engaged, work toward their goals, and celebrate their successes in reading, math, and social–emotional learning.\r\n\r\nFor many of my students, sustained effort can feel overwhelming, and progress—though real—often happens in small steps. These incentives give them something tangible to work toward and provide immediate recognition for their perseverance. Whether a student earns a small prize for meeting a decoding goal, chooses a reward after using a new coping strategy, or celebrates improvement in math fluency, these moments build confidence and pride.\r\n\r\nYour support has helped create a classroom culture where growth is noticed, effort is celebrated, and students feel proud of themselves. Thank you for believing in my students and helping make their hard work feel exciting and rewarding.","fullyFundedDate":1758202827480,"projectUrl":"project/motivation-matters-incentives-to-encour/9716104/","projectTitle":"Motivation Matters: Incentives to Encourage Learning!","teacherDisplayName":"Dr. Christy Evans","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp1576175_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1681785161649","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/drchristy"},{"teacherId":1576175,"projectId":9716169,"letterContent":"Thank you from the bottom of my heart for supporting our K–5 Special Education Intervention Room. Because of you, my students now have new SEL and breathing tools. You have given students healthy ways to express emotions, calm their bodies, and feel safe in our space. The students especially love the breathing bottles and the activities provided in the books have helped me provide individual students with engaging learning opportunities.\r\n\r\nYour kindness has made our classroom brighter, calmer, and more effective for the students who need it most. We are so grateful for you.","fullyFundedDate":1759920720594,"projectUrl":"project/calm-minds-strong-hearts-social-emotio/9716169/","projectTitle":"Calm Minds, Strong Hearts: Social-Emotional Learning Tools for Success","teacherDisplayName":"Dr. Christy Evans","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp1576175_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1681785161649","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/drchristy"},{"teacherId":1576175,"projectId":9752375,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting our K–5 Special Education Intervention Room. Your generosity has had a direct, meaningful impact on every student who walks through our door. \r\n\r\nThe classroom basics you provided—organizational materials, index rings, folders, and data-tracking tools—have helped us maintain consistent intervention plans, track progress for IEP implementation, and ensure every student receives the individualized support they deserve. These materials may seem small, but they keep our learning environment running smoothly and make a world of difference.\r\n\r\nThank you for believing in my students and for investing in the foundation they need to grow. 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These hands-on activities give them the repetition and practice they need—without feeling like they are \"working\"—and we've already seen students willingly ask to replay games that target their decoding, sight words, math facts, and strategic thinking.\r\n\r\nThank you again for believing in my students and for investing in the foundation they need to grow. 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My students and assistants were very excited when these items started arriving. \r\nAs a K-5 special education teacher, I had students working on skills related to number identification as well as students at the higher end of the continuum working on multiplication and division. Thanks to your generosity, I was able to provide all of my students practice on the skills they were working using resources that didn't single them out. There were many opportunities to for all of my students to be working on their individual IEP goals while still getting to play the same goal as their peers. \r\nAs much learning as the games and resources you helped me provide my students, your generosity helped me relearn things I previously had been taught. All students need access to fun and engaging learning opportunities and the more we target their individual learning needs and let them work on tasks on their level, the more learning that happens. \r\nFrom the bottom of my heart, thank you so much for caring about my students and helping me provide them with a little extra fun in our learning tasks.","fullyFundedDate":1742310096655,"projectUrl":"project/22-equals-math-engagement/9177700/","projectTitle":"2+2 Equals Math Engagement","teacherDisplayName":"Dr. Christy Evans","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp1576175_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1681785161649","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/drchristy"},{"teacherId":1576175,"projectId":9055367,"letterContent":"I learned so much about special education and how beneficial it is to be able to differentiate and tailor our instruction to the individual students in our classrooms. 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