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Mrs. Catledge from Fort Mill, SC is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Reading With Magnetic Letters

Help me give my students magnetic letters so they can build and manipulate sounds while learning to read.

  • $2,039 goal

This project expired on July 5, 2024.

This project expired on July 5, 2024.

My Project

Reading can be a complicated skill for students to learn as they discover the relationship between letters and sounds and how they work together to make words. When teaching phonics to students as they are learning to read, it is important for them to have magnetic letters to build words and sounds. Starting their reading journey with phonics tends to strengthen their reading skills. Phonics allows children to develop their reading comprehension and also learn new words. With this, children are able to easily decode and encode new words when learning to read. The magnetic letters I am requesting will provide opportunities for hands-on word-building for students to build new words while practicing skills they are learning.

Using magnetic letters will teach children letters and sounds by offering a tactile and visual experience for all our learners.

When they manipulate the letters, the concepts they are learning will become cemented into their memory.

Mrs. Catledge Tega Cay Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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Fort Mill, SC View local requests 450 students impacted

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Lakeshore Classroom Magnetic Letters Kit • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 30 $1,499.70

Materials cost

$1,499.70

Vendor shipping charges

$74.98

Sales tax

$105.73

3rd party payment processing fee

$22.50

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,732.91

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$305.81

Total project goal

$2,038.72

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