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Professional development

Structured Literacy Can Help All Students Become Readers

I need Orton Gillingham training to provide my students with high quality intervention.

$1,696 goal

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Celebrating 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

As a reading interventionist, my primary role is to work with students that are not meeting grade level benchmarks. Although most of my students have not yet been identified with a learning or reading disability such as dyslexia or dysgraphia, the science of reading shows that the same interventions that benefit students with dyslexia and other reading disabilities are also effective in teaching all students to read. My students work incredibly hard to rewire the language centers in their brain to close large gaps between their learning and their peers. And I want to make it easier for them by providing them with the evidence based instruction they deserve.

My students require language to be broken down into rules and given practice with these rules using multi-sensory strategies that engage the language system in their brains and build new pathways.

They work ten times harder than the average child just to keep up.

My Project

All students need targeted reading instruction. However, past primary grades, students that are not proficient in all areas of literacy require a substantial amount of accelerated support to address basic knowledge in orthography, morphology, and vocabulary.

Although schools are closed, reading and learning must continue for our students.

I hope to apply the Orton Gillingham-Structured Literacy training to my direct instruction, whether it is virtual learning or back in the classroom. Students at all grade levels need differentiated reading instruction. By receiving this kind of training I will be able to enhance my own teaching toolbox to ensure my students with specific learning disabilities and identified deficits in reading will receive the necessary multi-sensory instruction to compensate for such substantial learning loss due to COVID-19.

Ms. Poulos

Grades PreK-2

Sanchez Elementary School

San Francisco, CA

California

More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households

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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 reach 25 students.

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Materials Cost Quantity Total

Virtual Comprehensive IMSE Orton-Gillingham Training • IMSE Institute for Multisensory Education $1,275.00 1 $1,275.00

Materials cost			$1,275.00
Vendor shipping charges			FREE
Sales tax			$116.66
3rd party payment processing fee			$19.12
Fulfillment labor & materials			$30.00
Total project cost			$1,440.78
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms			$254.26
Total project goal			$1,695.04
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal			$1,695.04
5 Donors			-$722.51
Donations toward project cost			-$618.33
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms			-$104.18
match offer			-$967.59
Match offer toward project cost			-$822.45
Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms			-$145.14
Excluded support for DonorsChoose			-$4.94
Still needed View calculation Hide calculation			$0.00

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This teacher needs your help!

Structured Literacy Can Help All Students Become Readers

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Give this project a boost!

My Students

My Project

Equity Focus

Boost your odds

Top rated for efficiency and transparency.

TEACHERS, FEELING INSPIRED?

Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes

How we calculate what's needed

Give the most requested basic supplies

Give back to your community

Project Activity

Project Activity

DonorsChoose is the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Help teachers & students in your hometown this season!
Use code HOME at checkout and your donation will be matched up to $100.