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Ms. Hawkins from Dallas, TX is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Reading and Writing Our Way to Success!

My students need writing instruments, pens and markers to revise their writing, reading guides to provide checklists and self-accountability, and ink to print creative projects.

  • $388 goal

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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

Each day my students walk into my classroom looking to achieve academic greatness. They bring me their bright smiles and brighter ideas on their journey, and all I want is to help them reach all their goals. They are capable of anything, all they need is support and guidance on the road to WOW!

I serve in a Title I school in south Dallas.

With 100% of my class qualifying as high poverty and "at-risk", it is essential that I provide them the best educational experiences I possibly can. My scholars are fun, energetic, creative, loving children that need as much support, guidance, and love as I can give them. Providing a safe, organized, accessible environment is the first step in ensuring that my students are excited and comfortable expressing themselves, taking risks, and growing!

My Project

Using the different strategies presented in each of the reading manuals will give my students a variety of mental tools to improve their reading skills. Also, the teacher guides provide checklists for each reading level, and my students will each have their own copies of the lists and use these to hold themselves accountable. They will use these to monitor their own growth and set personal goals for continued improvement. Students will use the guides to select the strategies they feel will help them grow the most. A range of writing instruments will help my students improve their writing in a variety of ways. They will be able to write, revise, and edit in different colors, which can make the process easier and FUN! Markers allow us to complete Interactive Writing more effectively, improving the writing skills of every student. Finally, ink for our printer will allow students to create interesting projects on our computer, like newsletters, posters, brochures, and book reports.

Donating to this project will help my students improve their overall literacy skills, which will be essential to their future success both academically and personally.

By providing more effective reading instruction, I will be able to push them to the next level and prepare them for later grades. With improvement in their writing skills we will see the students grow in their ability to communicate in a variety of ways.

Ms. Hawkins Ascher Silberstein Elementary School Grades PreK-2

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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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

16 students impacted 5donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Quill Brand Compatible Brother LC51BK (LC51BK2PK) Black Ink Cartridges Dual Pack • Quill.com $38.15 2 $76.30
Quill Brand Compatible Brother MFC240C (LC51CL) (LC51CL3PK) Tri-Color Ink Cartridges Triple Pack • Quill.com $28.43 2 $56.86
When Readers Struggle: Teaching That Works • Amazon $51.66 1 $51.66
The Continuum of Literacy Learning, Grades PreK-8, Second Edition: A Guide to Teaching • Amazon $48.00 1 $48.00
Paper Mate Flair Point Guard Pens 12-Color Set • Quill.com $16.14 1 $16.14
Pacon Sentence Strips Assorted Colors • Quill.com $5.52 2 $11.04
Sharpie Permanent Markers Chisel Point, Assorted Colors, 8-Color Set • Quill.com $9.34 1 $9.34
Sharpie Flip Chart Markers Black, 8/Pack • Quill.com $6.99 1 $6.99
BIC Intensity Marker Pen Fine Point, Assorted Fashion Colors, 5/Pack • Quill.com $6.37 1 $6.37
Sharpie Flip Chart Waterbased Markers Bullet Point, Assorted Colors, 8-Color Set • Quill.com $5.99 1 $5.99
Barker Creek Double-Sided Trim Turquoise/Coral Chevron, 12/Pack • Quill.com $5.94 1 $5.94

Materials cost

$294.63

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.42

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$329.05

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$58.07

Total project goal

$387.12

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $387.12

2 Donors

-$378.29

Donations toward project cost

-$329.05

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$49.24

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$8.83

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