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Please Help Our Kids to Believe in Themselves!

My students need stickers and pencils as motivation to come to the reading lab and to complete their reading homework.

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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

"Believe in Yourself." This is one of the three rules posted in our reading lab. Most of the kids we service cannot read at all. It can be very difficult for a young child to persevere in the face of failure. When they want to slump down or tune out, we tell them "Believe in yourself!" and it works!

100% of our students live below the federal poverty line.

80% read below grade level, and most speak a language other than English at home. Our reading lab services the lowest readers out of this population. Our kids are great kids and they are smart kids, but socio-economic, social, and language factors have combined to cause many of them to be woefully unprepared to be able to learn to read successfully in a traditional classroom setting of 25+ students.

My Project

Our reading lab serves students who truly are struggling to read. By the end of first grade, students reading at grade level should be able to read 90 words per minute. The second- through fifth-grade students we target all read below 20 words per minute.

We have found that our kids respond extremely well to extrinsic motivation.

We always praise their efforts, but it's amazing how stickers and pencils help them to believe that their efforts are paying off for them. When the other kids see the prizes, they ask when they can come to the reading lab also. We have found that by using prizes, instead of the kids viewing coming to reading lab as a punishment for not being good readers, they are considered the "lucky" ones who get to go.

Mrs. Codina J.B. Sutton Elementary School 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.

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Phoenix, AZ 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

45 students impacted 2donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Dr. Seuss #2 Pencils - Box of 72 Assorted Designs • Kaplan Early Learning Company $18.66 4 $74.64
Reward Sticker Bus • Kaplan Early Learning Company $10.16 5 $50.80
Super Reader! Pencils (box of 12) • Kaplan Early Learning Company $2.51 20 $50.20
Emoji Stickers Large Pack (912 Stickers) • Kaplan Early Learning Company $10.16 4 $40.64

Materials cost

$216.28

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $15.46

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.24

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$264.98

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$46.76

Total project goal

$311.74

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $311.74

1 Donor

-$132.49

Donations toward project cost

-$132.49

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$0.00

match offer

-$155.87

Match offer toward project cost

-$132.49

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$23.38

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$23.38

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 $0.00

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