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Ms. Schildkraut from Brooklyn, NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Building English Fluency in Context

My students need thesauruses and bilingual dictionaries to build their English vocabularies as they read and write.

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My Students

My students are highly motivated, interesting, and engaged. They love to pull apart the details of our reading and, through discussion, cobble those details back together in meaningful ways. They're a pleasure to work with.

They're seventh graders, a year full of contradictions and discoveries.

Part of my job is to help them learn to manage their thinking, which requires us as a group to talk about how to tease apart what's important from what's not. Another part of my job is to provide students with easy to manage tools that facilitate thinking.

My Project

Many of my 7th grade students are current or former English language learners. While they strive to be proficient readers and writers, sometimes words and ideas get lost in translation.

English language learners, regardless of fluency levels, need quick and easy ways to help them make sense of texts that they read and create.

The addition of bilingual and English dictionaries and thesauruses will help children develop contextual meanings in their reading and writing across languages. Constant interactions with these books will hasten vocabulary acquisition and build confidence in English. Native language comprehension is also supported in this way. The addition of a paper cutter will help us create neat language building tools and presentation-worthy published pieces that students can be proud of.

Ms. Schildkraut MS 88 Peter Rouget Grades 6-8

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More about Ms. Schildkraut

Brooklyn, NY View local requests

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

150 students impacted 6donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
X-ACTO 15x15 Commercial Grade Square Guillotine Trimmer • Amazon Business $99.52 1 $99.52
Webster's Thesaurus for Students, Third Edition • Amazon Business $4.49 10 $44.90
Webster's Dictionary for Students, Fifth Edition • Amazon Business $4.49 10 $44.90
Bengali (Bangla)-English/ English-Bengali (Bangla) Practical Dictionary (Hippocrene Practical Dictionaries (Hippocrene)) (Bengali Edition) • Amazon Business $20.36 2 $40.72
Oxford English-Urdu Mini Dictionary • Amazon Business $11.73 2 $23.46
Merriam-Webster's Arabic-English Dictionary • Amazon Business $6.29 3 $18.87
Webster's Spanish-English Dictionary for Students, Second Edition • Amazon Business $3.47 4 $13.88
Merriam-Webster's Chinese-English Dictionary • Amazon Business $6.29 2 $12.58

Materials cost

$298.83

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.48

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$333.31

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$58.82

Total project goal

$392.13

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$392.13

5 Donors

-$392.13

Donations toward project cost

-$333.31

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$58.82

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$0.00

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