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Mrs. Pellicci from Bayside, NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Before There Was Google Translate...We Used Dictionaries!

My students need pocket translation dictionaries to take into their mainstream classes.

  • $978 goal

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Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

What better way to welcome someone to America than by extending a helping hand!

Can you imagine trying to read a 7th grade text when you are reading on a first grade level?

That is what my students are trying to do every day.

All of my students are newcomers (in the U.S.A less than a year), or beginners (speaking English at a beginning level). Our school resides in the beautiful town of Bayside, where we have a large Chinese population and a growing Hispanic population. In my ESL class we consider ourselves a "family". My students feel they can come to me with any problem they may encounter. I consider my ESL classroom a safe place for learning and growing.

My Project

If I could give each of my English as a Second Language students a pocket language dictionary, they would be able to function at a higher level in their general ed. classes like Science and Social studies. Not every student can afford an expensive electronic translator, therefore a pocket dictionary would help both the student and the teacher. Very often their teachers ask them to copy vocabulary and my ESL student's have no idea what they are copying. With pocket dictionaries they would be able to make a real language connection. Until each student is able to have a translating device, dictionaries are a tried and true method.

Mrs. Pellicci
Grades 6-8
    More than half 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

    This project will reach 60 students.

    35 donors have given to this project.

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Pocket Oxford Chinese Dictionary (Oxford Dictionaries) • Amazon Business $13.58 30 $407.40
Merriam-Webster's Chinese-English Dictionary • Amazon Business $6.29 30 $188.70
Merriam-Webster's Pocket Spanish-English Dictionary (Flexible paperback) (Pocket Reference Library) • Amazon Business $4.97 15 $74.55
Periplus Pocket Korean Dictionary: Korean-English English-Korean, Second Edition (Periplus Pocket Dictionaries) • Amazon Business $6.95 10 $69.50
The Pocket Oxford Greek Dictionary : Greek-English English-Greek • Amazon Business $9.81 5 $49.05

Materials cost

$789.20

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.84

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$831.04

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$146.65

Total project goal

$977.69

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $977.69

35 Donors

-$1,275.75

Donations toward project cost

-$1,131.04

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$144.71

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$54.89

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