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Ms. Stoehr from Oakland, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Ms. Stoehr's classroom raised $326

Great Dictionaries Means Everyone Loves Word Work!

My students need 10 classroom dictionaries so they can look up content vocabulary, define challenging words in reading assignments, and build their understanding of word parts.

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Ms. Stoehr Lighthouse Community Charter High School
Oakland, CA Grades 9-12

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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.

Please help my 10th Grade Humanities students engage in reading and become stronger writers through the understanding of powerful words.

I teach 10th grade Humanities in an urban, college preparatory high school. My students work hard to overcome lots of challenges, and desperately want to succeed in high school and go to college. They love learning about words. Weird, right? Tenth grade English language learners who want to study vocabulary? Well, they do. Their academic curiosity about vocabulary exceeds their interest in most other things. As an English teacher, I think this is great. What’s not great is that I don’t have any dictionaries in my classroom to support my students’ interest.

That’s where you come in. One of my coworkers has a class set of the Longman Dictionary of American English. On occasion I borrow them, and my students love them. I know this all sounds strange. This dictionary has pages and pages of words and images in categories in the center of the book, and it provides definitions that my students can understand. Some of them flip through it, scanning for interesting words, while others look up words they like but cannot define. The way the dictionaries fascinate them is thrilling to me and makes me proud of them. I love it even more when I hear and see them begin to use the words correctly. I desperately want to support this interest in words!

Therefore, I am asking you to help me get a set of dictionaries for my class. This will allow us to study prefixes and find words that have them. We’ll be able to look up definitions to words we are studying or that we find in our readings. We’ll be able to compare the meanings of similar words with different endings. We’re going to expand our vocabularies and become more intelligent readers, writers, and speakers. It’s going to be great!

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Nearly all students from low‑income households

60 students impacted 8 donors
Ms. Stoehr Lighthouse Community Charter High School Grades 9-12

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Oakland, CA 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

60 students impacted 8donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Longman Dictionary of American English Not Available • Barnes and Noble $21.74 10 $217.40

Materials cost

$217.40

Vendor shipping charges

 $21.74

Sales tax

 $15.76

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.26

Fulfillment labor & materials

$9.00

Total project cost

$267.16

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$58.64

Total project goal

$325.80

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $325.80

6 Donors

-$325.80

Donations toward project cost

-$267.16

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$58.64

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