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Reading Brains Blast Us Forward!

Help me give my students more opportunities to weave phonics and comprehension into motor movement. We can use spray bottles and chalk, playdoh and other supplies to build hand muscles while learning letter sounds and sight words.

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My Project

The Special Education caseload at my school includes a wider variety of disabilities, in addition to students with limited English proficiencies. After dedicating this school year to deep-diving into the Science of Reading research, my team and I have learned new ways to reach these struggling readers. My last project involved the multi-sensory, multi-modality component of learning to interact with phonemes and whole words. This has been a hit, and is showing great success.

Now, we'd like to add in even more research-based practices.

These include explicitly teaching articulatory gestures, with mirrors- showing students new to English, or with articulation disabilities, how English phonemes are formed in our mouth, and what it should look like. In order to teach students how to manipulate sounds (phonemes), and transfer them to graphemes (letters), we need more tools like spray bottles, more play-doh, and velcro dots, to build hand muscles and let students experiment with syllables and phonemes in an engaging way. This also transfers to graphemes through fine motor capabilities in writing.

Finally, Scarborough's Reading Rope, developed through research on the science of how our brains learn to read, shows us that if a student does not comprehend what they can now decode, they still cannot read. They need to understand the vocabulary and language that they are reading. This is especially important for students with language deficits, and also with limited English proficiency. These Read-Alouds will allow us to instruct on the phonemic awareness, phonics, and vocabulary concepts all in one. Exposure to rich language and explicit examples of what were are teaching them to manipulate with their mouths and hands, is essential.

These resources will help us continue to reach our students with disabilities such as language and speech deficits, specific learning disabilities, and limited English Proficiency.

Mrs. Lakin Stout Field Elementary School Grades 3-5

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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

60 students impacted 9donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Bat and the End of Everything (The Bat Series, 3) • Amazon Business $9.99 5 $49.95
Business Source Laminating Pouch, Ltr, 3Mil, 9 x 11-1/2 Inches, Pack of 100, Clear • School Specialty $20.24 2 $40.48
Spray Bottle 500 mL • Carolina Biological Supply Company $8.42 4 $33.68
Post-it Super Sticky Notes, 8x6 in, 4 Pads, 2x the Sticking Power, Energy Boost Collection, Bright Colors, Recyclable (6845-SSPL) • Amazon Business $11.94 2 $23.88
Play-Doh Ultimate Fun Factory, Great First Play-Doh Set Multipack Set for Kids 3 Years and Up, 47 Tools, 12 Non-Toxic Colors (Amazon Exclusive) • Amazon Business $22.90 1 $22.90
Mckanti 96 Pcs Carpet Markers Sit Dots, Spot Markers Carpet Circles Nylon Floor Dots for Kids Teachers Preschool Kindergarten Social Distancing Wait Line Up Classroom Decoration, 6 Colors, 4 Styles • Amazon Business $21.01 1 $21.01
A Bad Case of Stripes (paperback) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $9.00 2 $18.00
Small Handheld Hand Mirror Compact Travel Makeup Mirror Handheld Cosmetic Mirror with Handle Personal Mirror Portable Vanity Mirror 3.15 Inch Wide, 7.09 Inch Long (Blue, Green, Pink, Purple,8 Pieces) • Amazon Business $8.99 2 $17.98
Chrysanthemum • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
The Invisible Boy • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
The Bad Seed (The Food Group) • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Last Stop on Market Street • Amazon Business $12.15 1 $12.15
The Junkyard Wonders • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs: As Retold by Mo Willems • Amazon Business $11.25 1 $11.25
Owl Moon • Amazon Business $10.82 1 $10.82
Spaghetti in a Hot Dog Bun: Having the Courage To Be Who You Are • Amazon Business $7.96 1 $7.96
Miss Nelson Is Missing! • Amazon Business $7.19 1 $7.19
School Smart Sidewalk Chalk Tub, Assorted Colors, Pack of 52 • School Specialty $7.07 1 $7.07
Pancakes for Breakfast • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Some Smug Slug • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
What If Everybody Did That? • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Thunder Cake • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Hop on Pop (I Can Read It All By Myself) • Amazon Business $6.00 1 $6.00
Four Famished Foxes and Fosdyke • Amazon Business $5.63 1 $5.63

Materials cost

$378.31

Vendor shipping charges

 $19.71

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.67

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$433.69

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$76.53

Total project goal

$510.22

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $510.22

9 Donors

-$510.22

Donations toward project cost

-$433.69

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$76.53

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