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A Ladder to ELA/History Success for ELLs, Part 1

My students need visually-rich, beginner-oriented texts, to give them much needed linguistic support, in their ELA and History studies.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Moffett's classroom raised $375

This project is fully funded

My Students

"Why does an underground railroad have no trains?" It's a concept that can confuse the most literal of U.S. born, native English speakers, and truly stump a recently immigrated English Language Learner. Enter 7th-grade history, if you dare!

My ELL, English Language Learner students, are energetic, young pre-teens, who come from a range of immigrant experiences, and cultural backgrounds.

Each day, they struggle to express themselves fully in a second language, and can get overwhelmed by this great challenge. Growing up outside of the U.S., or even densely packed immigrant communities here within the country, many of my students arrive with little background knowledge, on the basics of American history, and the culture that has been shaped by it. So, when they jump into social studies, they're learning what feels like encyclopedic amounts of events, and important figures, for the first time. When they reach ELA, they're lost in the historical context of period-specific literary texts, and get tripped up by the terms and phrases, such as "fare thee well," "hornbook," and "canteen". The mind can only process so much.

My Project

Gathering a store of curriculum-relevant young readers editions and picture books, of early American people and eras, as well as bilingual copies of core texts, like Lord of the Flies, will reduce the fog my 7th and 8th-grade students enter, in their increasingly challenging Social Studies and ELA classes. The simpler sentence structures and vocabulary will help my ELLs grow the language foundations they need, for everyday life and other classes. They can then, also, build a visual context, necessary to really grasp the fundamentals of these time periods, and start to understand the origins of allusions and idioms, they might come across today, such as "learning the ropes," and even "mind your own bee's wax"!

So often my students are overwhelmed playing catch-up with their peers, because of their limited English proficiency.

This project helps bridge that gap, and provides them with essential background knowledge, that allows them to participate fairly in class discussions and projects, without being totally lost. Being able to keep pace with their peers, encourages them on their difficult journey of mastering English, and can free them up to have some fun along the way!

Ms. Moffett Junior High School 194 William H Carr Grades 6-8

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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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

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Lord of the Flies (Chinese Edition) • Amazon Business $13.09 4 $52.36
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Young Readers Edition • Amazon Business $12.60 4 $50.40
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation (Jane Addams Award Book (Awards)) • Amazon Business $14.96 1 $14.96
A Picture Book of Sojourner Truth (Picture Book Biography) • Amazon Business $6.79 2 $13.58
A Picture Book of Harriet Tubman (Picture Book Biography) • Amazon Business $6.72 2 $13.44
Child of the Civil Rights Movement • Amazon Business $6.54 1 $6.54
Amelia to Zora: Twenty-Six Women Who Changed the World • Amazon Business $6.53 1 $6.53
A Picture Book of Abraham Lincoln (Picture Book Biography) • Amazon Business $6.42 2 $12.84
A Picture Book of Frederick Douglass (Picture Book Biography) (Picture Book Biographies) • Amazon Business $6.41 2 $12.82
Rad American Women A-Z: Rebels, Trailblazers, and Visionaries who Shaped Our History . . . and Our Future! (City Lights/Sister Spit) • Amazon Business $11.37 1 $11.37
A Picture Book of Sacagawea (Picture Book Biographies) (Picture Book Biography) • Amazon Business $7.00 1 $7.00
If You Lived When Women Won Their Rights • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
If You Lived At The Time Of The Civil War • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
A Picture Book of Anne Frank (Picture Book Biography) • Amazon Business $6.90 1 $6.90
A Picture Book of Paul Revere (Picture Book Biographies) • Amazon Business $6.79 1 $6.79
A Picture Book of Lewis and Clark (Picture Book Biography) • Amazon Business $6.61 1 $6.61
If You Lived In Colonial Times • Amazon Business $6.52 1 $6.52
. . . If You Were There When They Signed the Constitution • Amazon Business $6.22 1 $6.22
If You Lived At The Time Of The American Revolution • Amazon Business $6.16 1 $6.16
Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
. . . If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad • Amazon Business $5.94 1 $5.94
If Your Name Was Changed At Ellis Island • Amazon Business $5.92 1 $5.92
If You Lived When There Was Slavery In America • Amazon Business $5.70 1 $5.70
If You Traveled West In A Covered Wagon • Amazon Business $5.60 1 $5.60

Materials cost

$284.17

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.26

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$318.43

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$56.19

Total project goal

$374.62

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $374.62

5 Donors

-$253.62

Donations toward project cost

-$215.58

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$38.04

Matching donations from our partners

-$121.00

Match offers toward project cost

-$102.85

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$18.15

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