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Mrs. Scott-Trainer from Denver, CO is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Phenomenal Phonics Tools Make Learning Fun!

My students need games to play with and apply their newfound Phonics skills!

  • $253 goal

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Mrs. Scott-Trainer has another project! Donate to We Like to Move It, Move It! to help her classroom.

$386 - complete this project and be a hero

My Students

Mr. Rogers once said, "Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children, play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood." I want to ensure that my students, in our highly standardized, high-stakes school environment have the chance to play!

My students want to be readers, but have to work hard to overcome their skill deficits.

They are high-poverty, diverse kids in a turn-around school in NE Denver. Many are learning English as a second language. Many have little or no support at home with mastering basic reading skills. They need targeted Phonics Intervention, which my team works hard to provide from K-5 in a fun and motivating way that is also highly rigorous.

My Project

These resources would be used by my team of Interventionists who push into my classroom to deliver targeted, often remedial Phonics lessons to below-level readers. The work is hard, repetitive, and demanding on both teachers and students. One thing we have learned this year, however, is that if kids get a chance to show what they know, they can really champion their own learning. We want to provide our students with interactive, hands-on ways to apply their new Phonics skills so that they demonstrate their learning, challenge each other, and are continually motivated by play and competition to learn even more.

These games and activities all directly reinforce our Common Core standards, the goals of our Interventions program, and the academic and social needs of our hard-working students.

These wonderful kids deserve a little play in their demanding school day, and why not learn to play with the very letters and words they have to work with anyways? Please consider supporting this project to help liven up our Phonics lessons for some of our most challenged readers. Thank you!

Mrs. Scott-Trainer Denver Center for International Studies at Ford Grades PreK-2

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.

More about Mrs. Scott-Trainer

Denver, CO 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

Materials Cost Quantity Total
CVC Spelling Board Games • Amazon $32.69 1 $32.69
Learning Resources Vowel Owls Sorting Set • Amazon $25.75 1 $25.75
Big Box of Sentence Building • Amazon $22.49 1 $22.49
Sentence Building: An early literacy resource that provides for an endless variety of reading and grammar games! • Amazon $15.99 1 $15.99
Learning Resources Snap-n-Learn Alphabet Alligators • Amazon $14.99 1 $14.99
Learning Resources Stacker Crackers - Sound Swap Game • Amazon $10.59 1 $10.59
Phonics Bingo Ladders: Fun-and-Easy Reproducible Games That Target and Teach Key Phonics Skills • Amazon $10.42 1 $10.42
Learning Resources Pop for Word Families Game • Amazon $9.99 1 $9.99
Learning Resources Pop for Blends Game • Amazon $9.70 1 $9.70
Cut & Paste Sight Words Sentences • Amazon $9.22 1 $9.22
DK Games: Silly Sentences • Amazon $8.99 1 $8.99

Materials cost

$170.82

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$10.93

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.56

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$214.31

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$37.82

Total project goal

$252.13

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$252.13

6 Donors

-$246.84

Donations toward project cost

-$214.31

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$32.53

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$5.29

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

$0.00

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