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Ms. Vanderpuije from Brooklyn, NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Decodable Books Create Successful Beginning Readers!

Help me give my students decodable text to help them improve their letter sound relationships, fluency and comprehension.

  • $851 goal

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Ms. Vanderpuije has another project! Donate to Team Tomato: Growing a Green Space at our PS to help her classroom.

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My Students

I am working with my fellow kindergarten teachers and literacy coach in a Brooklyn elementary school. I work with this team the the benefit of approximately 40 students that span across two classes. Our students are curious and eager learners who are excited about the world around them.

My Project

Help the kindergarten teachers and the students they serve revamp their classroom libraries! We want to shift our students' focus away from relying on picture clues and predictable language patterns to decode text. Students will practice decoding sounds they have learned during explicit phonics instruction while reading high interest fiction and non-fiction texts that are developmentally appropriate. Reading decodable texts will help students store letter sounds and word families in their long-term memory. This rapid decoding will allow students to read more fluently and comprehend texts more deeply which will develop their confidence and love of reading!

Ms. Vanderpuije PS 295 the Studio School of Art & Culture Grades PreK-2

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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Brooklyn, NY View local requests

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

40 students impacted 16donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Short Vowel Rimes 18-Book Set (Classroom Library Collections) • Amazon Business $96.58 4 $386.32
Phonics Readers Boxed Set 3 Short Vowels, Consonant Blends and Digraphs (24 Books) • Amazon Business $29.99 4 $119.96
EE667 - Lakeshore Word Family Readers • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 2 $99.98
Starfall Short-Vowel Pals 16 Decodable Phonics Books • Amazon Business $19.11 4 $76.44

Materials cost

$682.70

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$10.24

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$722.94

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$127.58

Total project goal

$850.52

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $850.52

15 Donors

-$752.28

Donations toward project cost

-$680.44

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$71.84

match offer

-$50.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$42.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$7.50

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$48.24

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 $0.00

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