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Overcoming Dyslexia with Cursive Handwriting

Help me give my students a quality cursive program to assist them in overcoming their reading disability.

  • $215 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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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.

My Students

I teach special education students in 3rd and 4th grade. My students have disabilities such as autism, learning disabilities, and emotional impairments. Most are from low income households and are first generation English speakers. My students are at least two years below grade level in reading due to specific learning disabilities like Dyslexia.

In my classroom, I am using an intensive reading program known as the Wilson Reading System.

This is a research-based, intensive, highly structured and multi sensory literacy instruction program for students who have not responded to other reading interventions.

My Project

Cursive Handwriting is becoming an endangered species in the American public education. According to the National Center for Learning Disabilities, children with reading disabilities benefit from cursive handwriting because it helps them with the decoding process. It integrates hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills, and other brain and memory functions.

In the digital world, my students get very little practice and instruction in writing cursive.

I plan to incorporate cursive instruction with the Cursive Writing 3rd grade kit, in my multi-sensory intensive reading instruction. I would also be able to assign this as homework and they would be able to do this independently without relying on their parents to help them.

Mrs. Markos
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
KIT 3RD GRADE CURSIVE WRITING • School Specialty $136.31 1 $136.31

Materials cost

$136.31

Vendor shipping charges

 $13.63

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.04

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$181.98

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$32.11

Total project goal

$214.09

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $214.09

2 Donors

-$214.09

Donations toward project cost

-$181.98

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$32.11

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