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Ms. Knight from Independence MO is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Readers Come in Many Forms

My students need a listening center, headphones, and a junction box.

  • $601 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

I want my students to have the same advantages of students in more affluent schools. One of the biggest disadvantages of students from poverty is their lack of vocabulary. This should be formed as their parents are reading to them from infancy. Unfortunately, this isn't always the case.

While my students are immersed in poverty, I fight to inform them they are not held by their circumstances.

My students are amazing young people that are developing a passion for learning. My school is currently over 90% free and reduced price lunches. However, we have a community dedicated to breaking the poverty barriers.

My Project

My students will listen to books daily. Students need to hear what good reading sounds like. Being able to listen to reading without the stress of decoding words, builds confidence in them as readers. They will have time to look at pictures and comprehend the words on the page by simply listening to the story. By hearing what good reading sounds like, they will find more joy in books.

If I am able to get my students into loving books, they will be life long learners.

I feel that in between 2nd and 3rd grade, students make up their mind whether they like school or not. I want them to like school and like learning. Something as simple as a listening center can make a difference for my students as learners.

Ms. Knight
Grades 3-5

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
EE216 - Mobile Listening & Storage Center • Lakeshore Learning Materials $329.00 1 $329.00
FN2924CX - Listening Center Headphones - Set of 8 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $119.00 1 $119.00
LA802 - 8-Station Junction Box With Volume Controls • Lakeshore Learning Materials $24.99 1 $24.99

Materials cost

$472.99

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.09

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$510.08

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$90.01

Total project goal

$600.09

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $600.09

1 Donor

-$600.09

Donations toward project cost

-$510.08

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$90.01

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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