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Ms. Butler from Louisville, KY is requesting classroom basics through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Reading Foundations

Help me give my students the foundation they need to be strong readers.

  • $708 goal

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My Students

My students are excited to come to school and learn! They are creative, smart, and full of questions. As with most classrooms, we have a wide range of students with different abilities. Many of my students do not come to school with the basic supplies they need to start the year, such as crayons and pencils. For many of them, the structure of the school day and the consistency of a classroom is a safe haven. I work very hard to create fun, engaging lessons that will keep my students learning.

I feel it is my responsibility to create an environment where all of my students can learn.

Research shows that many students need explicit, systematic phonological awareness and phonics instruction to learn how to read. I differentiate the skills that students are learning, giving them exactly what they need when they need it. Hands on learning is also important in my classroom- students learn through games and other activities where they play and explore. This gives students the opportunity to engage in their learning, and gives all students the opportunity to learn.

My Project

In first grade, tons of growth occurs with students' ability to read. Students come to first grade able to read basic texts, and they refine their abilities in first grade and hopefully leave as readers. However, this isn't the case with all students, and sometimes first grade reveals the gaps that some students have as they struggle to learn to read.

Research tells us that students with strong phonological and phonemic awareness skills learned beginning in Kindergarten and first grade will have better outcomes once they reach the upper grades and must "read to learn" instead of "learning to read." They will be able to draw on these foundational skills to read multi-syllabic words and decode unknown words.

Without this strong foundation, students may begin to struggle later in their school career. I want to give my students a strong foundation in phonics and phonological and phonemic awareness so that they continue to be great readers throughout the rest of their life.

I am asking for the Heggerty Phonemic Awareness curriculum and some decodable readers. The Heggerty curriculum contains whole group lessons with short activities that cover a variety of phonological and phonemic awareness skills, such as substituting phonemes, blending sounds, and more. With this daily practice, I will continue to build a strong foundation for success with my students. I also asked for Whole Phonics decodable readers. I believe that phonics instruction should be systematic and explicit, and students should be given plenty of opportunities to practice the skills they're learning in both reading and writing. These decodable texts will allow students to begin to practice the skills they are learning, and continue to practice these skills as they advance in their phonics knowledge. Decodable texts give students specific practice with these skills, creating students who are confident readers.

Ms. Butler McFerran Preparatory Academy Grades PreK-2

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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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Louisville, KY View local requests

More than three‑quarters 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

24 students impacted 6donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Level 1 Readers • Whole Phonics $75.00 6 $450.00
Print Curriculum: Primary 2020 (English) • Heggerty $79.99 1 $79.99

Materials cost

$529.99

Vendor shipping charges

 $33.34

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.95

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$601.28

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$106.11

Total project goal

$707.39

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $707.39

5 Donors

-$353.70

Donations toward project cost

-$300.65

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$53.05

match offer

-$353.68

Match offer toward project cost

-$300.63

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$53.05

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.01

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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