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Whisper Phones! This Is So Much FUN!

My students need whisper phones to help them hear themselves reading without disrupting their classmates.

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My Students

"The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind." ~Elizabeth Hardwick Help me nurture a love for reading in my kindergarten students with these fun whisper phones!

My kindergarten students go to a Title 1 public school, located in a large urban district of Southeastern Pennsylvania.

The students come from low-income households and receive free lunch. They represent a diversity of cultures from places around the world such as Pakistan, Cambodia, Mexico, and Nepal. Many of them do not speak English as a first language and have never attended school. Like all five-year-old children, they are sweet, energetic, and very excited to be in kindergarten.

My Project

Each day the children will have a chance to read to themselves. They will take their very own book bin with them and go to their special reading spot. Inside the book bin are all of the books they have carefully picked out for themselves, a magnifying glass to look for letters and words they know, and... Wouldn't it be great to end that sentence with "a shiny red whisper phone"? Using the whisper phone helps to develop a student's phonemic awareness by allowing them to clearly hear their own voice. It also encourages them to whisper so that they can read alongside their classmates without disturbing them. Most of all, it gets them really excited about reading as they learn good habits and build their reading stamina.

Our district is facing an extreme budget crisis.

Over 3,800 district employees, including secretaries, lunch monitors, counselors, and specialist teachers were laid off in May. For the last two years our schools have not received any educational materials and will not for the upcoming school year. It would be amazing to be able to provide my students with this little extra tool to make reading more exciting.

Ms. D. John H Taggart Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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Nearly all 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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Materials Cost Quantity Total
EE539 - Hear Myself Sound Phone - Set of 10 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $45.00 3 $135.00

Materials cost

$135.00

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.02

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$167.02

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$29.47

Total project goal

$196.49

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $196.49

6 Donors

-$98.24

Donations toward project cost

-$83.51

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$14.73

match offer

-$98.25

Match offer toward project cost

-$83.51

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$14.74

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 $0.00

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