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  • Opportunity Elementary School
  • City Of Spokane Valley, WA
  • More than half of 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

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As a kindergarten teacher in a low income school, I am looking to increase their reading proficiency by utilizing hands-on reading activities. For 180 days, I focus on their growth potential, not their lack of incoming skills. I do this by creating fun, meaningful, and engaging reading activities. I invest a lot of time and money into creating these special activities because I want them to love reading and writing. Your donations to this project will help underprivileged students have access to engaging literacy activities throughout the year. Throughout the year we use many types of reading materials such as smelly markers, stamp pads, ABC stamps, note pads, and play dough. However, each year they need to be rejuvenated and restocked. The materials purchased will be used during literacy centers where students are tasked with completing independent work. My students rotate every day through small-group reading instruction, word work, work on writing, and library. The magnets, dabbers, and stamps will be used to manipulate sight words and sentences. The variety of writing tools will be used to keep students' interest throughout the year in the writing center. Students draw and write words using colorful markers. Each week they "write the room" by finding new vocabulary words hidden around the room using smelly markers and note pads. The needed materials will motivate my students to continue reading and writing. They want to come to school each day and are eager to learn through differentiation and choice of materials. Sometimes the simplest activities are the biggest hit with kids. And I have found that simply changing literacy materials weekly does just that!

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As a kindergarten teacher in a low income school, I am looking to increase their reading proficiency by utilizing hands-on reading activities. For 180 days, I focus on their growth potential, not their lack of incoming skills. I do this by creating fun, meaningful, and engaging reading activities. I invest a lot of time and money into creating these special activities because I want them to love reading and writing. Your donations to this project will help underprivileged students have access to engaging literacy activities throughout the year. Throughout the year we use many types of reading materials such as smelly markers, stamp pads, ABC stamps, note pads, and play dough. However, each year they need to be rejuvenated and restocked. The materials purchased will be used during literacy centers where students are tasked with completing independent work. My students rotate every day through small-group reading instruction, word work, work on writing, and library. The magnets, dabbers, and stamps will be used to manipulate sight words and sentences. The variety of writing tools will be used to keep students' interest throughout the year in the writing center. Students draw and write words using colorful markers. Each week they "write the room" by finding new vocabulary words hidden around the room using smelly markers and note pads. The needed materials will motivate my students to continue reading and writing. They want to come to school each day and are eager to learn through differentiation and choice of materials. Sometimes the simplest activities are the biggest hit with kids. And I have found that simply changing literacy materials weekly does just that!

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