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Mrs. Aragon from Marana, AZ is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Reading With Our Ears!

My students need a listening center station with eight sets of headphones plus a portable CD and cassette player to listen to books on tape/CD.

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My Students

“Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read.” – Marilyn Jager Adams.

Our classroom is full of twenty-five active, happy, energetic and enthusiastic learners!

They are always happy and excited to come to school, to interact with each other and learn new things throughout our day. They constantly ask "why" and are always wanting to learn more things and explore new ideas! Our school is a small school setting, with only one classroom per grade (like the old one-room schoolhouse idea). Everybody in our school knows everybody; we really embrace the community model and have several partnerships within our community. We encourage and support family interactions and offer many resources to our parents to help them succeed as well as their children. We offer a small school alternative for those students who need a smaller and more personal environment to really thrive.

My Project

My students will use the listening center during the week to listen to our class stories during reading centers. It will give them access to additional books and read aloud stories that will enhance their creativity, fluency, comprehension and love of reading. They will use this center during our Reading Block time and rotate through so that every student gets a chance to use the listening center twice a week. Listening to stories being read aloud by an adult is so very important for developing crucial reading skills that these students will eventually be doing on their own. Reading aloud helps model fluency and expression as well as helps build students' language and vocabulary development. They will be exposed to different topics, stories, readers, vocabulary and so much more by listening to these books on tape and gain such important skills and creativity through this.

Many of my students have parents who are working two and three jobs to support their families and often do not have time to read to them at home.

This project would allow my students the opportunity to hear different readers, different stories and give them the model they truly need to help them develop those necessary reading skills. "...the single most important activity for building the knowledge required for eventual success in reading is reading aloud to children." Report of the Commission on Reading

Mrs. Aragon Open Doors Community School Grades PreK-2

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Marana, AZ View local requests

More than a third 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

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
GG820 - Read-Along Listening Center • Lakeshore Learning Materials $199.00 1 $199.00
Sony CFDS50 Portable CD, Cassette & AM/FM Radio Boombox • Amazon Business $49.97 1 $49.97

Materials cost

$248.97

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $17.80

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.73

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$300.50

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$53.03

Total project goal

$353.53

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $353.53

2 Donors

-$229.00

Donations toward project cost

-$194.65

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$34.35

match offer

-$124.53

Match offer toward project cost

-$105.85

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$18.68

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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