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Mrs. A. from CA is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Using Laptops to Motivate and Create Young Authors

My project needs 2 laptop computers and one color printer with scanner.

  • $1,466 goal

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This proposal is to help my students of various grade levels with Learning Disabilities and other disabilities to become enthusiastic about writing and to motivate them to create personal writing pieces. The students that I teach, have learning disabilities and many are also English language learners. Most of them have difficulty writing down their ideas, or once their ideas are written in pre-written format they have difficulties with editing their writing, due to their low skills with writing cohesively, spelling and grammar. These students get frustrated with having to re-write their work a few times and get tired of writing in order to make it better. Their frustration levels become increased and many therefore quit, and or won't even try to begin or to have finished writing products that they can be proud of. I believe that with the use of a computer and its editing,and writing programs my students will become motivated writers and authors. It would be so much easier for them to focus on expressing their ideas rather than having to write. They will be able to use the scanner/printer to scan their own drawings and/or pictures into their writing and to print out their work that they have worked hard to complete. The use of computers will lessen their frustration levels and increase their motivation. They will finally have finished products such as poems, songs, and even short stories (books) that they will be proud to display and share with others. Please consider in helping to motivate and create young authors with disabilities that can be proud of creating and completing writing projects.

Mrs. A. Hubbard Street Elementary School Grades 3-5

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Sylmar, CA 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

20 students impacted 7donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
HP Officejet 5610 Color Flatbed All-In-One • Office Depot Inc. $109.99 1 $109.99
Compaq Presario C552US 154quot Widescreen Notebook Computer With Intel(R) Celeron(R) M Processor 520 • Office Depot Inc. $429.99 1 $429.99
Toshiba Satellite(R) A135-S2326 154quot Widescreen Notebook Computer With Intel(R) Celeron(R) M Processor 520 • Office Depot Inc. $449.99 1 $449.99

Materials cost

$989.97

Vendor shipping charges

$99.00

Sales tax

$71.77

3rd party payment processing fee

$24.75

Fulfillment labor & materials

$17.00

Total project cost

$1,202.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$263.85

Total project goal

$1,465.85

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$1,465.85

4 Donors

-$1,396.47

Donations toward project cost

-$1,202.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$194.47

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$69.38

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$0.00

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