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Ms. O'Neil-Dunne from Raleigh, NC is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Listening and Learning in First Grade

My students need a listening center, headphones, and fiction and non-fiction books to support their literacy education.

  • $1,169 goal

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My Students

I teach at a Title 1 school in Southeast Raleigh, North Carolina. Our first-graders are kind, curious, feisty, and they LOVE to read!

So far, my team's first-graders have enjoyed many books together through read alouds.

They adore being read to. From The Night of the Veggie Monster by George McClements to Mary Hoffman's Amazing Grace, students hear stories come alive and are then inspired to recreate that experience as readers, when they hold the books themselves, and writers, when they write books in the same styles.

My Project

When students are learning to read, there are many ways to support them, and an important one is a listening center, which we do not currently have at our school. At a listening center, up to 6 children hold the physical book while listening to it read aloud by an audiobook reader (often the author, or an actor who provides dramatic emphasis!). While we read aloud every day to our students, listening to audiobooks is not just an engaging way to increase the amount of books read aloud that each child hears. It's a way for a child to hear a book while following the text up close and learning new words in print.

Funding this project will put a listening center in each first grade classroom at our school, and high quality books in the hands of 88 first-graders.

I love to get lost in a book. With a listening center available to them daily, our first-graders will get the chance to immerse themselves in a great book without the help of a teacher, even if they can't yet read all of the book by themselves.

Ms. O'Neil-Dunne Rise Southeast Raleigh Charter School Grades PreK-2

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

Equity Focus

At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Raleigh, NC 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

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
FF280X - Best-Buy Listening Center • Lakeshore Learning Materials $99.50 4 $398.00
RE207X - Favorite Picture Book Read-Alongs - Set 2 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $199.00 1 $199.00
RE855X - Informational Text Read-Alongs - Level 1 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $139.00 1 $139.00
FF289 - Best-Buy Storage Center Only • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 4 $119.96
Miss Nelson Is Missing! • Amazon Business $6.36 4 $25.44

Materials cost

$881.40

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $68.75

3rd party payment processing fee

$13.22

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$993.37

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$175.30

Total project goal

$1,168.67

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,168.67

12 Donors

-$1,131.61

Donations toward project cost

-$993.37

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$138.24

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$37.06

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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