Help me give my students dictionaries so that we can develop our word study skills.
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My Students
Located in the nation's capital, the school where I teach serves the needs of a diverse community of students and families. My work is complex as I navigate how to build relationships and community across lines of difference like race, class, language, and country of origin.
As a Language Arts teacher, working with primarily English learners, my most important task as a teacher rests on my ability to fully articulate the power, complexity, and impact of language.
To communicate is to learn to advocate for oneself and one's community, and that reality is the cornerstone for what I do.
My students learn the importance of vulnerability as they develop their capacity to communicate through reading, writing, listening, and speaking. No experience is more humbling or profound than when a student's potential has been fully realized through their dedication to themselves and their pursuit of knowledge and self-expression.
My Project
My students come from all over the world, and they speak many languages. In my school, we teach students English and Spanish with the hope of having all children exit the program bilingual and bi-literate. As you can imagine, this is an incredibly challenging task, especially when you lack the necessary resources to support this kind of development.
Because my students are learning how to read, write, listen, and speak, it is so essential that they have access to resources that help bridge these two languages.
One specific resource needed by students is a dictionary. Dictionaries help to define unknown words and allow students to see connections between languages. I am requesting seven dictionaries for my classroom. We need dictionaries to connect language with images, bridge both languages and look for cognates, and develop academic vocabulary.
We will use these resources throughout the day and during all academic blocks. My students will benefit tremendously from having dictionaries in the class. Please consider supporting us!
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