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Daring and Daunted...Dictionaries Improve Diction!

My students need 10 American Heritage dictionaries.

  • $231 goal

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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

ESL 5th graders in a high-need Texas city need dictionaries! These elementary students are hard working and want to learn as many new English words as they can before they go to middle school. I don't even teach Reading and yet my students constantly find themselves grappling for a dictionary that isn't there to look something up. Most of my students live in trailers behind the school and own very few books of their own, let alone a dictionary. Just to have a few new dictionaries at our disposal in the classroom would make a world of a difference!

My students are eager to expand their vocabulary and get really excited about our daily Word of the Day warm up each morning. The problem is, I am their walking, talking dictionary. The only dictionaries available in our elementary school are young children's dictionaries printed in the 1940s. My students are 5th graders and often can't find the words they are looking for in these "baby" books.

My students need grade and age appropriate dictionaries. These would be a classroom set, not one book for every student.

My students will be moving on to middle school next year and need to know how to look words up in a "real" dictionary. They also deserve books that have been printed within their lifetime and contain current information( their old books still list the USSR and don't recognize Alaska as its own state!) Your help will ensure that my students stay excited about learning new words and looking up ones they aren't familiar with. Your help will ensure that my students move on to middle school with the necessary skills to use a dictionary that is not based just on pictures and a first grade vocabulary.

Ms. G. Looscan Elementary School Grades 3-5

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At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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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

73 students impacted 2donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
AMERICAN HERITAGE STUDENT DICTIONARY American Heritage Student Dictionary • Quill $15.29 10 $152.90

Materials cost

$152.90

Vendor shipping charges

 $15.29

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.82

Fulfillment labor & materials

$17.00

Total project cost

$189.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$41.49

Total project goal

$230.49

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $230.49

1 Donor

-$110.85

Donations toward project cost

-$94.22

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$16.63

match offer

-$111.51

Match offer toward project cost

-$91.44

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$20.07

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$4.05

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 $0.00

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