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
My adorable bilingual Spanish-speaking students reside in a culturally and linguistically diverse neighborhood in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. They are all English-Language learners identified as having speech and language disorders in their home language. Their first language was Spanish and most are learning English for the first time in the school. Most students come from low socioeconomic backgrounds and have limited access to academic resources at home. My job is to provide them with linguistically-rich learning opportunities to help them succeed in their classrooms.
When students are supported in their first language, their English-language learning is accelerated.
The students I serve have a variety of diagnoses and communication needs. Their diagnoses include autism spectrum disorder, speech-language impairment, hearing impairment, and learning disability. Each student also has unique speech and language needs. These include difficulties with articulation, speech fluency, phonology, verbal communication, as well as receptive and expressive language. Despite their differences in communication styles, they all deserve the same opportunity to succeed in the classroom alongside their general education peers.
My Project
Many students with speech and language difficulties are visual learners. They learn language best when colorful pictures and words are presented. This is especially true when working on vocabulary and story narratives. Having access to a color printer in our speech classroom will provide students with greater visual aids during their therapy sessions. This includes having more printed images of storybook characters, story illustrations, graphic organizers, and much more. In addition, many nonverbal students require color-coded picture boards to communicate. The boards contain various picture icons of core vocabulary, and are available via a program called Boardmaker. A color printer will provide these students with limitless access to communication boards to support their language skills.
Colorful visual aids facilitate language-learning by building students' visual mental representations of language.
In addition, increasing access to bilingual storybooks containing a myriad of illustrations are essential for building language skills such as story retelling, vocabulary, expanding sentences, etc. However, finding bilingual Spanish copies of classic storybooks such as The Little Red Hen, The Three Little Pigs, and The Mitten are difficult to find in schools and in the community. Therefore, all bilingual hard copy materials (Spanish: Short Stories for Beginners, Bilingual Nonfiction Mini-books, Bilingual Little Readers) will be immediately used in therapy to help students develop their listening comprehension in their home language (Spanish). It is important to give students who speak a language other than English the same access to literature as their English-speaking peers.
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
HP OfficeJet Pro 8025e Wireless Color All-in-One Printer with bonus 6 free months Instant Ink with HP+ (1K7K3A)
• Amazon Business
$189.99
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$189.99
Original HP 910 Cyan, Magenta, Yellow Ink Cartridges (3-pack) | Works with HP OfficeJet 8010, 8020 Series, HP OfficeJet Pro 8020, 8030 Series | Eligible for Instant Ink | 3YN97AN
• Amazon Business
$34.89
2
$69.78
Spanish: Short Stories for Beginners: Improve your reading and listening skills in Spanish (Easy Spanish Beginner Stories)
• Amazon Business
$14.90
1
$14.90
25 Easy Bilingual Nonfiction Mini-Books: Easy-to-Read Reproducible Mini-Books in English and Spanish That Build Vocabulary and Fluency―and Support the ... Science Topics You Teach (Teaching Resources)
• Amazon Business
$10.40
1
$10.40
El mitón (Spanish Edition)
• Amazon Business
$9.99
1
$9.99
Hands Are Not for Hitting / Las manos no son para pegar (Best Behavior® Board Book Series) (English and Spanish Edition)
• Amazon Business
$8.99
1
$8.99
My First Bilingual Little Readers: Level A: 25 Reproducible Mini-Books in English and Spanish That Give Kids a Great Start in Reading (Teaching Resources)
• Amazon Business
$8.99
1
$8.99
The Feelings Book / El libro de los sentimientos (Spanish and English Edition)
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$7.99
1
$7.99
Dia de Los Muertos
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$7.99
1
$7.99
I Love You Sun / I Love You Moon: Te amo Sol / Te amo Luna
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$7.59
1
$7.59
Dragones y tacos (Spanish Edition)
• Amazon Business
$7.57
1
$7.57
The Boy Who Cried Wolf / El niño que gritó: ¡Que viene el lobo! (Timeless Fables) (Timeless Fables / Fabulas De Siempre) (English and Spanish Edition)
• Amazon Business
$4.99
1
$4.99
The Little Red Hen La Gallinita Roja Bilingual Storybook—Classic Children's Books With Illustrations for Young Readers, Keepsake Stories Collection (32 pgs)
• Amazon Business
$3.99
1
$3.99
The Three Little Pigs Los Tres Cerditos Bilingual Storybook—Classic Children's Books With Illustrations for Young Readers, Keepsake Stories Collection (32 pgs)
• Amazon Business
$3.99
1
$3.99
Perro grande... Perro pequeño / Big Dog... Little Dog (Spanish and English Edition)
• Amazon Business
$3.99
1
$3.99
Juan y los frijoles mágicos (Jack And The Beanstalk), Bilingual Children’s Book Spanish/English, Guided Reading Level J (Keepsake Stories)
• Amazon Business
$3.99
1
$3.99
Materials cost
$365.13
Vendor shipping charges
FREE
Sales tax
$0.00
3rd party payment processing fee
$5.48
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$400.61
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$70.70
Total project goal
$471.31
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal
$471.31
3 Donors
-$444.71
Donations toward project cost
-$400.61
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
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