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Mrs. Landino from Wyoming, MI is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Decreasing the Vocabulary Gap, One Book at a Time!

Help me give my students books for repeated read aloud, and cardstock for vocabulary words. Reading books multiple times a week with vocabulary cards will increase our vocabulary!

  • $234 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.

My Students

Our children are dreamers. They are eager and motivated to learn. They come from families who are hard-working, and they are teaching their children that same motivation for learning. Many of our families fall below the national poverty levels; some experiencing the situation of being homeless or are home insecure. In addition, English is a second language for the majority of our families or they are bilingual households.

Every child deserves a great start.

Our children deserve no less than great. Our children are getting ready for Kindergarten, and it is our job to prepare them! Having the right materials and devices is a large part of preparing students for school success!

My Project

Students living in poverty hear on average less words than their upper and middle class peers leading to a gap in knowledge of vocabulary. One way we know how to decrease the gap is reading and reading the same books repeatedly while talking about the vocabulary and part of books. For this exact reason my colleagues and I have decided to do a repeated read aloud of books; this involves reading the same book for one week. Each day we teach new vocabulary words connected to the story and the definitions, we have children pair up daily to discuss something about the book and at the end have a celebration of review where we celebrate all that we have learned; this may be a retell of the story or drawing a picture of our favorite part from the book.

A study on language acquisition found that children pick up new vocabulary quicker from repeated readings of the same book than when they encounter the same words in different new texts (Horst, Parsons & Bryan, 2011.).

This type of reading is going to help our English language learners as they will hear the same book multiple times and each time they have the opportunity to hear and learn something new about the story or a vocabulary word. We want our students to be prepared for Kindergarten and one way we need to do this is by increasing their vocabulary and book knowledge. The use of the this Repeated Read Aloud library I am seeking and cardstock for creating high quality vocabulary cards is going to help us achieve this goal.

Mrs. Landino Godfrey Lee Early Childhood Center Grades PreK-2

Equity Focus

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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Wyoming, MI View local requests

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

64 students impacted 6donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Guacamole: Un poema para cocinar / A Cooking Poem (Bilingual Cooking Poems) • Amazon Business $8.95 2 $17.90
Neenah Exact Index, 110 lb, 8.5 x 11 Inches, 250 Sheets, White, 94 Brightness • Amazon Business $8.91 2 $17.82
Gigantic Turnip • Amazon Business $7.99 2 $15.98
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day • Amazon Business $6.99 2 $13.98
Hush! A Thai Lullaby • Amazon Business $6.99 2 $13.98
The Doorbell Rang • Amazon Business $6.98 2 $13.96
Corduroy • Amazon Business $6.89 2 $13.78
I Was So Mad! • Amazon Business $5.56 2 $11.12
Bread and Jam for Frances (I Can Read Level 2) • Amazon Business $3.99 2 $7.98
Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business • Amazon Business $6.98 1 $6.98
Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business • Amazon Business $6.98 1 $6.98
Pancakes, Pancakes! • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Pancakes, Pancakes! • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Click, Clack, Moo/Ready-to-Read: Cows That Type (A Click Clack Book) • Amazon Business $4.79 1 $4.79
Click, Clack, Moo/Ready-to-Read: Cows That Type (A Click Clack Book) • Amazon Business $4.79 1 $4.79
The Paper Bag Princess • Amazon Business $1.99 2 $3.98

Materials cost

$166.00

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.49

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$198.49

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$35.03

Total project goal

$233.52

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $233.52

4 Donors

-$142.00

Donations toward project cost

-$120.70

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$21.30

match offer

-$91.52

Match offer toward project cost

-$77.79

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$13.73

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