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Ms. Braun from Philadelphia, PA is requesting professional development through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Desperate to Read

I need the Secret Stories phonics guides to help my students who are reading and writing below grade level.

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Since I becoming a teacher, I have been on a quest to find the most effective, research based programs for teaching children to read. I taught first grade for many years where phonics was a huge part of our day. Now, as a fourth grade teacher, phonics is not part of my core curriculum even though I have many students reading well below grade level. Programs structured for children to learn to read as 6 and 7 year olds are great, but my students are being presented with complex texts every day that need more support with.

Secret stories is a program that will help me unlock phonics concepts for fourth graders who haven't mastered them thus far.

To support students who are well below grade level, a different approach is necessary. Secret stories will help me present my fourth grades with all of the phonics concepts they'll encounter in their daily work and give them access to the books they desperately want to read.

Ms. Braun John H Taggart Elementary School Grades 3-5

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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

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
“Space Saver” Class Kit • Secret Stories $103.00 1 $103.00
Phonics Porta-Pics Class Pack of 25 • Secret Stories $65.00 1 $65.00
Brain Based Red Phonics Flashcards • Secret Stories $47.50 1 $47.50

Materials cost

$215.50

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 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.23

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$248.73

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$43.89

Total project goal

$292.62

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