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Mrs. DeCrescenzo from Staten Island, NY is requesting other through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Asking So Much For Students With So Little

My students need an Orton Gillingham based reading and spelling program, Levels 3-10, to provide instruction in Phonemic Awareness using a multi-sensory based program.

  • $3,042 goal

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My Students

I am a Speech/Language Teacher at a Title I school. It is located in an economically under-privileged area. I work with students that are diagnosed with language-based learning disabilities and Dyslexia. My students are frustrated by their poor phonemic awareness skills and inability to read.

I work with students that have been diagnosed with language-based learning disabilities/and or Dyslexia.

Although, I work with a selected group of students as a speech therapist, data has shown that the issue of literacy or illiteracy is a major issue widely effecting the entire school population. My focus is on providing unique individualized instruction in Phonemic Awareness using an Orton-Gillingham based reading program, called the Barton Reading and Spelling Program. This program is supported by research and one of the 7 programs supported by the Orton-Gillingham Society. My wish is to implement and expand the use of this program to my students, to my fellow speech teachers and to the classroom teachers through Professional Development.

My Project

My students would benefit from the purchase of the Barton Reading and Spelling Program. It is a simultaneous multi-sensory explicit phonics approach that teaches students how to read and spell. It teaches students to sound out instead of memorizing. The program shows the logic of language starting with the most common spelling patterns. There are ten levels in the Barton System. Only when the student masters the end of one level would you get to the next level. The Barton Reading and Spelling System is one of the seven well known Orton-Gillingham based systems. The Barton System's strength is on the teaching of spelling. In addition, the program also teaches grammar, basic capitalization and punctuation, morphology (how to determine the meaning of a word by knowing the meaning of the pieces), prosody (how to read aloud with proper phrasing), and improve fluency (reading speed). All of the elements that the Barton System teaches are connected to the five pillars of reading.

Children without words are licked before they start.

Cultural fallout causes the vicious circle of ignorance and poverty reinforced and perpetuated... Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently... Peter Jennison If I had the Barton Reading and Spelling Program in my therapy room, in the classrooms and in the students' lives, we would be providing the hope the students desperately need to become literate.

Mrs. DeCrescenzo PS 44 Thomas C Brown 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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Staten Island, NY View local requests

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

800 students impacted 36donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Barton Reading And Spelling System • Bright Solutions for Dyslexia $300.00 1 $300.00
Barton Reading and Spelling • Bright Solutions for Dyslexia $300.00 1 $300.00
Barton Reading and Spelling • Bright Solutions for Dyslexia $300.00 1 $300.00
Barton Reading and Spelling System • Bright Solutions for Dyslexia $300.00 1 $300.00
Barton Reading and Spelling • Bright Solutions for Dyslexia $300.00 1 $300.00
Barton Reading and Spelling • Bright Solutions for Dyslexia $300.00 1 $300.00
Barton Reading and Spelling • Bright Solutions for Dyslexia $300.00 1 $300.00
Barton Reading and Spelling • Bright Solutions for Dyslexia $300.00 1 $300.00

Materials cost

$2,400.00

Vendor shipping charges

 $119.60

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$36.00

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$2,585.60

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$456.28

Total project goal

$3,041.88

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $3,041.88

30 Donors

-$2,624.82

Donations toward project cost

-$2,270.25

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$354.57

Matching donations from our partners

-$371.00

Match offers toward project cost

-$315.35

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$55.65

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$46.06

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 $0.00

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