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Mr. Appelsies from Peoria AZ is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Do You Know the Secrets to Improve Reading?

Help me give my students engaging supplemental phonics resources "Secret Stories Classroom Kit" to help increase reading fluency.

  • 2 donors
  • $89 still needed

expires Jul 10

  • 2 donors
  • $89 still needed
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My Project

My students love to learn, but sometimes they need extra support in an engaging way. The Secret Stories Phonics supplement introduces sounds and phonograms in a fun way that will help learning stick for my scholars needing a different approach to help with reading.

Secret Stories helps students understand the "Why" letters make the sounds they do.

Explanations follow the Science of Reading to logically make sense of phonograms. They use engaging terminology such as "Superhero Vowels" and "Sneaky Y to teach the why behind the sounds.

Every poster displays phonograms and on the back is a very engaging story that helps students understand the sounds, but most importantly, remember the sounds. I am so excited to have this project funded because what students don't love listening to stories.

Mr. Appelsies
Grades PreK-2

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
“Warm Neutrals” Class Kit • thesecretstories.com $111.00 1 $111.00
Heavy Duty “Warm Neutrals” Phonics Flashcards • thesecretstories.com $53.75 1 $53.75

Materials cost

$164.75

Vendor shipping charges

 $18.15

Sales tax

 $11.78

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.47

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$227.15

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$40.09

Total project goal

$267.24

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $267.24

2 Donors

-$159.58

Donations toward project cost

-$152.08

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$7.50

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$19.34

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 $88.32

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