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Mrs. Griffin from Nashville, TN is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Phonics is FUN-damental!

Help me give my students more practice with phonics skills to make them fluent readers! The flip books and Power Pen quiz cards will give my students additional practice with difficult phonics letter combinations.

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My Students

My students have a passion for growing friendships and learning all they can! We are a Title I school where the majority of our students participate in free and reduced rate lunch. We love learning alongside one another!

The students who enter my classroom are already behind their more affluent peers in reading.

We are committed to growing our brains! My kids love exploring and stretching their schema to learn more about the world around them. The students and parents are enthusiastic about learning, but do not have the tools (books, writing utensils, etc.) to work on reading and writing outside of school. With a longer school day, longer school year, and strategic planning, my students will make significant gains to leave first grade reading on grade level. I can't wait to see what they will do as they move along their educational journeys!

My Project

A lot of my students come to me reading below the grade level expectation for 1st Grade. These students struggle to identify chunks or letters that combine to make one sound (like -ing, -tch, str-).

These students need more practice with these word families to begin identifying them and reading them faster to become fluent readers.

The word family flip books will be an engaging way for students to have more at-bats with word family chunks. The quiz cards and pens will give students immediate feedback on their work and progress toward mastering word family chunks to become better readers. Lastly, the phones will help students hear the sounds of each word so they can better blend the word together and become faster, smoother readers.

Mrs. Griffin East End Preparatory School Grades PreK-2

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Nashville, TN 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

29 students impacted 3donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
BD530X - Power Pen!® - Set of 4 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $42.99 3 $128.97
BD540X - Power Pen!® Early Reading Quiz Cards�- Complete Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $75.00 1 $75.00
TT302 - Phonics Flip Books • Lakeshore Learning Materials $69.99 1 $69.99
EE417 - Word Family Flip Books • Lakeshore Learning Materials $59.99 1 $59.99
EE539 - Hear Myself Sound Phone - Set of 10 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $54.99 1 $54.99
AmazonBasics AA 1.5 Volt Performance Alkaline Batteries - Pack of 100 • Amazon Business $21.99 1 $21.99
BD582 - Power Pen!® Reading Comprehension Quiz Cards - Gr. 2 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $15.99 1 $15.99
BD581 - Power Pen!® Reading Comprehension Quiz Cards - Gr. 1 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $15.99 1 $15.99

Materials cost

$442.91

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.64

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$479.55

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$84.63

Total project goal

$564.18

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $564.18

2 Donors

-$57.00

Donations toward project cost

-$50.25

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$6.75

match offer

-$505.06

Match offer toward project cost

-$429.30

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$75.76

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$2.12

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 $0.00

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