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Draw, Design, Discover: Visual Storytelling for ENL Students

Help me give my students chalk markers and stickers to support ENL students in visual notetaking, window illustration, and picture book creation, fostering creativity, comprehension, and storytelling through multimodal literacy.

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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 Project

Our high school in Harlem serves many entering and emerging ENL students who thrive when given visual and physical ways to engage with language learning. This project will provide chalk markers and stickers to support a unit on illustration and storytelling, allowing students to connect visually with new vocabulary, express their ideas, and collaborate with peers.

For multilingual learners, drawing and design offer an accessible entry point into English, reducing anxiety around written language while reinforcing comprehension.

Through window illustration, visual notetaking, and picture book creation, students will interact with language physically, deepening understanding through color, shape, and imagery. These activities promote retention by linking words to visuals and enabling students to engage with content on their own terms.

John Parra’s picture books, included in this project, will serve as both inspiration and models for students. His expressive artwork and culturally rich stories will help students connect words to images, supporting comprehension and vocabulary acquisition. By analyzing Parra’s use of visuals in storytelling, students will gain confidence in creating their own picture books, using both art and language to share their voices.

Stickers will provide scaffolding for the final project, allowing students to create their picture books with ease. Pre-printed stickers with key vocabulary, sentence starters, and prompts will help students confidently build narratives, focusing on illustrations while reinforcing new words and sentence structures.

This project also fosters peer collaboration. As students create, they will teach each other new words, sharing insights and ideas in a supportive environment. The project makes language learning tangible, engaging, and student-centered, helping ENL students navigate English with creativity and confidence.

Mr. Nicholson Mott Hall High School Grades 9-12

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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

30 students impacted 3donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
MoodClue Liquid chalk markers 12 neon erasable Whiteboards, glass boards, chalkboards, windows, mirrors, car windshields, auto, glass. Odorless, non-toxic. Wet or dry erase. Thick and thin tip • Amazon Business $24.95 2 $49.90
2 Book Set: Latino Book of Concepts - Round is a Tortilla & Green is a Chile Pepper (paperback picture books) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $20.00 1 $20.00
Sky Heritage: Vintage Astronomy Ephemera and Junk Journal: (MATTE PAPER) Creative Collage Papers for Mixed Media Art, Scrapbooks and Decoupage • Amazon Business $17.79 1 $17.79
Spanish Is the Language of My Family • Amazon Business $15.89 1 $15.89
First 100 Stickers: Words: Over 500 Stickers • Amazon Business $7.64 2 $15.28
Fashion Angels 1000+ Mega-Cool Sticker Book • Blick Art Materials $7.64 2 $15.28
Everything Is Made Out of Magic Sticker Book (Flow) • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
CHALKY CROWN Liquid Chalk Marker Pen - Dry Erase Marker - Chalk Markers for Chalkboard Signs, Windows, Blackboard, Glass - 6mm Reversible Tip (Black, 5 Pack) • Amazon Business $6.87 2 $13.74
Hey, Wall: A Story of Art and Community • Amazon Business $12.60 1 $12.60
Waiting for the Biblioburro • Amazon Business $10.91 1 $10.91
Outdoor School: Spot & Sticker Birds • Amazon Business $9.14 1 $9.14
Usborne Build Your Own Sticker Book - Dinosaurs • Blick Art Materials $8.24 1 $8.24
Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos • Amazon Business $8.13 1 $8.13
Oye, Muro (Hey, Wall): Un cuento de arte y comunidad (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
The Ultimate Sticker Book Sharks • Amazon Business $6.50 1 $6.50
The Ultimate Sticker Book Bugs • Amazon Business $6.29 1 $6.29
Solar System Stickers (Dover Little Activity Books: Nature) • Amazon Business $2.50 1 $2.50

Materials cost

$235.17

Vendor shipping charges

 $9.95

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.53

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$278.65

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$49.17

Total project goal

$327.82

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $327.82

2 Donors

-$213.90

Donations toward project cost

-$181.82

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$32.08

match offer

-$113.92

Match offer toward project cost

-$96.83

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$17.09

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