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Ending the Word War: ELLs Become Victorious with Vocabulary

My students need a variety of 15 materials including books, flashcards, and games to help improve their vocabulary skills.

  • $332 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.

Whether we look from A to Z or we glance from Z to A We encounter words of all sorts each and every day. My students come from as far away as Burma and as close as Mexico. They’re developing their English language skills. There is much they have to know. Like how to create sentences with subjects and predicates, both simple and complex. So, there are countless words they need to learn, but my students I do not want to vex. I desire to teach them what they should know in a fun and exciting way. Therefore, I am asking you to join in our struggle with words right this very day. Please help my 4th graders, 28 in all, excel with language, figurative and plain. Together, we can make sure that a vast working body of English vocabulary is what they will gain. All kinds of books, flashcards, games and a whole lot more Will help my ESL students even up the score With the puny-looking, but powerful prepositions and those vacillating verbs that sometimes don’t know how they want to behave (action or linking?!). My students are bound to be victorious with vocabulary, something we all crave! I teach 4th grade at an elementary school on Chicago’s northwest side, which serves a very high, low-income population. There are over 1,200 students enrolled in grades Pre-K through 6. Over 72% of the student body is Latino with over one-third of the entire school being English Language Learners. Students at my school represent countries from all over the world, including Bosnia, Burma, Cambodia, Honduras, Korea, Mexico and Somalia. Thank you for considering my proposal.

Ms. Martin Hibbard Elementary School Grades 3-5

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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Chicago, IL View local requests

More than three‑quarters 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

28 students impacted 2donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Fancy Nancy's Favorite Fancy Words: From Accessories to Zany (Fancy Nancy Series) Jane O'Connor, Robin Preiss Glasser (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $10.39 1 $10.39
The Important Book Margaret Wise Brown, Leonard Weisgard (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Parts Of Speech Bingo • Kaplan Early Learning Company $8.56 1 $8.56
Compound Words Quizmo • Kaplan Early Learning Company $12.00 1 $12.00
Analogies Quizmotm • Kaplan Early Learning Company $12.00 1 $12.00
Bingo 5 Game Set • Kaplan Early Learning Company $42.10 1 $42.10
Quizmo Sight Word Skills Set 2 • Kaplan Early Learning Company $29.20 1 $29.20
Build A Sentence And Magnetic Board • Kaplan Early Learning Company $17.16 2 $34.32
AlphaMagnets Lowercase (42 pieces) • Kaplan Early Learning Company $6.84 1 $6.84
Vocabulary Builder • Kaplan Early Learning Company $17.16 1 $17.16
Spectrum Vocabulary, Grade 4 School Specialty Publishing, Manufactured by School Specialty Publishing • Barnes and Noble $8.95 1 $8.95
Vocabulary (FlashCharts) Flash Kids Editors • Barnes and Noble $3.55 4 $14.20
Vocabulary Cartoons Sam Burchers, Bryan Burchers, Max Burchers • Barnes and Noble $11.65 1 $11.65
Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster Debra Frasier, Debra Frasier (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.30 1 $6.30
AlphaMagnets Uppercase (42 pieces) • Kaplan Early Learning Company $6.84 1 $6.84

Materials cost

$226.80

Vendor shipping charges

 $22.68

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.67

Fulfillment labor & materials

$17.00

Total project cost

$272.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$59.71

Total project goal

$331.71

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $331.71

2 Donors

-$320.00

Donations toward project cost

-$272.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$48.00

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$11.71

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 $0.00

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