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Ms. Turner from Gainesville, FL is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Increasing Access to Engaging Decodable Literature for Emerging Kindergarten Readers

Help me give my students a library of decodable books that they can learn to read independently as we build our foundational literacy skills in kindergarten!

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My Project

Kindergarten is a critical year in a child's educational experience, as it is the first time many students enter a formal education setting. Students enter kindergarten with a variety of life experiences, background knowledge, and skills, but are all expected to obtain the same learning goals by the end of the year. One of the most important skills kindergarten-aged students will learn is how to break the alphabetic code and learn how to read.

To maximize student engagement and opportunity to experience success when transferring their small reading group skills independently, students need a variety of high interest easily decodable texts to practice with repetition.

When students encounter a text they want to read and have developed enough skills to read independently, their confidence and commitment to reading will increase. Student motivation, especially in kindergarten, is a crucial skill to help young students persevere through learning challenging that they will eventually encounter. These early experiences will shape their future perceptions of themselves as capable, confident readers.

Access to these high-interest decodable readers will provide my kindergarten students with the opportunity to see themselves as authentic readers and provide them with a plethora of options to choose from within our classroom library. These decodable readers will help develop their early literacy skills, including supporting their sight word knowledge, early phonics skills, and sentence level fluency necessary for a successful transition into the expectations of first grade.

Ms. Turner P.K. Yonge Development Research School Grades PreK-2

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Gainesville, FL View local requests

More than a third 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 5donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Kaplan Early Learning I Can Read Books - Level 1 - Set of 10 • Kaplan Early Learning Company $44.96 1 $44.96
Kaplan Early Learning I Can Read Books - Level 2 - Set of 10 • Kaplan Early Learning Company $44.96 1 $44.96
Kaplan Early Learning Step Into Reading Books - Level 1 - Set of 9 • Kaplan Early Learning Company $41.36 1 $41.36
Lakeshore Leveled Books Classroom Library 1 - Books Only - Level C (K) • Lakeshore Learning Materials $37.00 1 $37.00
National Geographic Readers Level 1 : Caterpillar to Butterfly, Ponies, Frogs, Koalas, Sea Otters, Polar Bears - 6 Book Set • Amazon Business $36.86 1 $36.86
Lakeshore Leveled Books Classroom Library 1 - Books Only - Level A (K) • Lakeshore Learning Materials $36.00 1 $36.00
Lakeshore Leveled Books Classroom Library 1 - Books Only - Level E (Gr. 1) • Lakeshore Learning Materials $35.00 1 $35.00
Lakeshore Leveled Books Classroom Library 1 - Books Only - Level B (K) • Lakeshore Learning Materials $34.00 1 $34.00
Lakeshore Leveled Books Classroom Library 1 - Books Only - Level D (K-Gr. 1) • Lakeshore Learning Materials $32.00 1 $32.00
Pinkalicious & Fancy Nancy 6 Book Set of 'I Can Read' Level 1 books by Victoria Kann (2011-05-03) • Amazon Business $27.42 1 $27.42

Materials cost

$369.56

Vendor shipping charges

 $8.70

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.54

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$413.80

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$73.02

Total project goal

$486.82

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $486.82

4 Donors

-$358.00

Donations toward project cost

-$311.80

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$46.20

match offer

-$120.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$102.00

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$18.00

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$8.82

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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