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Ms. C from San Francisco, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Bilingual Reading Buddy Books

My students need 2 copies each of 14 bilingual books and 9 non-fiction books in Spanish.

  • $552 goal

This project expired on March 15, 2010.

This project expired on March 15, 2010.

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Ms. C Thomas Edison Charter Academy
San Francisco, CA Grades 3-5

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.

I work at a small, multi-cultural charter school in California. Over the years, our population of English Language learners has increased significantly. This year, about thirty percent of our students are English Language Learners. One challenge English Language Learners face is the loss of their primary language once they enter school. Many students enter school with a high speaking vocabulary in their home language, and after time their home language is replaced by English. This is troublesome for students, because after a few years, while students have acquired some vocabulary in English, their level is not on par with English-speaking students. At the same time, the language they speak at home has not developed either, so a child is left with two languages that they speak at a less-than-fluent level. Research has shown that English Language Learners actually succeed more in English when they have high levels of literacy in their home language. Here is an example: Imagine that in third grade, students are learning about animals and the environments they live in. An English Language Learner needs to learn not only the subject matter about the animal their environments, they also have to learn the words. If a student has read in their home language about the different kind of environments at home, when they get to school, they can transfer their knowledge to English. They will already have some background knowledge about a subject. The same can apply to other concepts such as colors, numbers, shapes, plot, character, adjectives, adverbs, etc. We would like to encourage families to read in their home language at home (in addition to English). We have started sending books home once a week to students to read in their home language and practice with their families. After students practice at home, they bring the books back to school and spend about 15 minutes reading with a "Reading Buddy" in a different grade. We hope that their families will feel validated by having their home culture and language acknowledged at school, and in turn seek out more opportunities to enrich their child’s literacy in their home language. This proposal is only a one component of the program we are implementing for English Language Learners at our school. We have invested much time in professional development to learn how to reach the unique needs of these students in our classroom. I hope you will feel inspired to help with this small, but hopefully not inconsequential piece in helping our English Language Learners succeed. The collection of books I selected in English/Vietnamese and English/Spanish is hopefully the beginning of a larger move towards bilingualism and bi-literacy.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More than half of students from low‑income households

40 students impacted
Ms. C Thomas Edison Charter Academy Grades 3-5

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

San Francisco, CA View local requests

More than half 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

40 students impacted

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Oxford Picture Dictionary: English/Vietnamese Norma Shapiro, Jayme Adelson-Goldstein • Barnes and Noble $10.62 2 $21.24
Figuras/Shapes Luana K. Mitten • Barnes and Noble $5.39 1 $5.39
The Upside Down Boy: El nino de cabeza (Spanish-English Edition) Juan Felipe Herrera, Elizabeth Gomez (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $7.15 2 $14.30
Amigos del otro lado/Friends from the Other Side Gloria E. Anzaldua, Harriet Rohmer (Editor), David Schecter (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $7.15 2 $14.30
My Diary From Here to There/Mi diario de aqui hasta alla Amada Irma P rez, Maya Christina Gonzales (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $7.15 2 $14.30
Woman Who Outshone the Sun/La mujer que brillaba aun mas que el sol Alejandro Cruz Martinez, Harriet Rohmer, Rosalma Zubizarreta • Barnes and Noble $7.15 2 $14.30
The Storyteller's Candle (La Velita de los Cuentos) Lucia M. Gonzalez, Lulu Delacre • Barnes and Noble $11.67 2 $23.34
Movie in My Pillow/Una pelicula en mi almohada Jorge Argueta, Elizabeth Gomez (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $15.25 2 $30.50
Magic Dogs of the Volcanoes / Los perros magicos de los volcanes Manlio Argueta, Manilo Argueta, Stacey Ross (Translator) • Barnes and Noble $7.15 2 $14.30
Harvest Birds/ Los Pajaros de la Cosecha Blanca Lopez de Mariscal, Enrique Flores (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $7.15 2 $14.30
Angel's Kite/la Estrella de Angel Alberto Blanco, Rodolfo Morales (Illustrator), Dan Bellm (Translator) • Barnes and Noble $7.15 2 $14.30
Animal Poems of the Iguazu/Animalario del Iguazu Francisco X. Alarcon, Maya Christina Gonzalez (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $11.87 2 $23.74
Going Home, Coming Home/Ve Nha, Tham Que Hu'o'ng Truong Tran, Dana Goldberg (Editor), Ann Phong (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $15.25 2 $30.50
Carrying (Vietnamese-English) Gwenyth Swain, Kim Wood (Translator) • Barnes and Noble $8.95 2 $17.90
Chameleon Races (Vietnamese-English) Laura Hambleton, La Viet Duyen (Translator) • Barnes and Noble $8.05 2 $16.10
Tamanos/Sizes Luana K. Mitten • Barnes and Noble $5.39 1 $5.39
Colors! Colores! Jorge Lujan, Piet Grobler (Illustrator), John Oliver Simon (Translator) • Barnes and Noble $17.05 1 $17.05
Come una y cuenta 20 Greg Tang, Harry Briggs (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $13.49 1 $13.49
Opposites/Opuestos, Vol. 5 Gladys Rosa-Mendoza, Carolina Cifuentes (Editor), Dan McGeehan (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.25 1 $6.25
Por que sale el sol: Y otras preguntas sobre el teimpo y las estaciones Brenda Walpole • Barnes and Noble $11.69 1 $11.69
Jupiter: El sistema solar Isaac Asimov, Richard Hantula, Carlos Porras (Translator), Patricia D'Andrea (Translator), Revised by Richard Hantula • Barnes and Noble $22.20 1 $22.20
Let's Visit the Jungle!/ Vamos a la selva! Steve Holmes (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.25 1 $6.25
Los Asteroides Isaac Asimov, Richard Hantula, Carlos Porras (Translator), Patricia D'Andrea (Translator), Revised by Richard Hantula • Barnes and Noble $22.20 1 $22.20

Materials cost

$373.33

Vendor shipping charges

 $37.33

Sales tax

 $27.07

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.60

Fulfillment labor & materials

$9.00

Total project cost

$452.33

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$99.29

Total project goal

$551.62

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