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Ms. Ortiz from Far Rockaway, NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Help Build Our Spanish Library!

Help me give my students Spanish texts and Spanish visual dictionaries to increase their reading fluency and academic vocabulary! Having a Spanish library set like "Authentic Spanish Language Collection- Grade 3 (28 Books)," gives access into successful reading.

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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

We are Spanish Language learners in grades 2-5 in Far Rockaway. My students live in different areas of the community in the Rockaways and are from a variety of social-economic backgrounds from low, middle, and upper middle social-economic background. We attend a Title 1 school. Our expectation is to learn Spanish academic language to achieve reading, writing, listening, speaking and as well learn Hispanic culture. We are 15 diverse classrooms from grades 2-5 that have all types of family ethnic backgrounds-from the West Indies Caribbean, Africa, India, and even Latin America! Some of us come from monolingual English speaking homes, some of us from already bilingual speaking homes. We all are eager to continue our learning to be multilingual learners and progress forward in Spanish!

My Project

Having more range of Spanish books of different genres like fiction and nonfiction, biographies, animal nonfiction, informative texts, series books, science fiction, graphic novels, comics, and many more topics, at different reading levels for all students to have access to Spanish reading. Helping students bookshop by their own interests and having that accessible Spanish library that has quantity and quality will encourage students to pick up more Spanish books to read at their own individual level.

Studies have show that encouraging students of being bilingual and biliterate and multilingual learners holds many positive cognitive benefits like having a better attention span and multi-tasking!

Ms. Ortiz Challenge Charger 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.

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.

More about Ms. Ortiz

Far Rockaway, NY 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

420 students impacted 11donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Authentic Spanish Language Collection- Grade 3 (28 Books) • AKJ Education $300.61 1 $300.61
Favorites Grades 2-3 (9 Bk Set) Spanish • AKJ Education $73.98 2 $147.96
Spanish English Bilingual Visual Dictionary • AKJ Education $12.40 8 $99.20
Barron's Children's Visual Dictionary • AKJ Education $10.94 5 $54.70
James y el melocotón gigante (James and the Giant Peach) • AKJ Education $10.18 1 $10.18
¿Quién cuenta las estrellas? (Number The Stars) • AKJ Education $9.48 1 $9.48
Webster's Spanish-English Dictionary for Students • AKJ Education $3.64 2 $7.28
Spanish-English Picture Dictionary • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83

Materials cost

$635.24

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.53

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$674.77

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$119.08

Total project goal

$793.85

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $793.85

9 Donors

-$430.00

Donations toward project cost

-$399.25

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$30.75

match offer

-$324.14

Match offer toward project cost

-$275.52

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$48.62

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$39.71

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 $0.00

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