Help me give my students dictionaries to improve their vocabularies, supplement their writing and enhance their reading comprehension. This donation will go towards a class set of soft cover dictionaries to benefit young learners.
$287 goal
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Celebrating 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.
Of course, I may be biased, but I am a lucky teacher to what I believe is a group of 48 of the most vivacious, energetic, resilient, and curious fourth and fifth graders in the state. Our low-income school serves populations from a variety of circumstances. Much of our student base is comprised of learners coming from insufficient socioeconomic means so they often lack school supplies, food to fuel their brains, and clothing. Our diverse group of kids come from a myriad of familial situations including broken homes, incarcerated or deceased parents, overworked or unemployed guardians, and immigrants. Most of our students are excited to come to school for the security, structure, and positive adult and peer relationships found there, and others for the sheer love of learning. My students are brave. They have an uncanny capacity to put aside all of their very real stressors and try to learn. They yearn for knowledge, success, and the potential to go to college. Many of my students would be the first to do so in their family. These students have the drive and desire to succeed, but some supplies would help!
My Project
These dictionaries will supplement nearly every literacy activity we use in my classroom. First and foremost, dictionaries develop learner autonomy. My students will be able to take responsibility for their own learning as opposed to waiting on me to help them understand a word, they can continue with their reading, worksheet, or other activity - this gives them functional skills (like understanding alphabetization), required information, and a sense of fulfillment. Dictionaries are a handy resource for researching different meanings, collocations, examples of use and standard pronunciation.
Many of the students I teach are learning English as a second language, but are still expected to perform at the level as students who have spoken English since birth - these dictionaries will help improve their fluency and English confidence.
Dictionaries will assist my students in phonology, collocation, pronunciation, parts of speech, suffixes and affixes, and spelling. I plan to implement them in useful ways that students will find fun as well including dictionary races, spelling bees, and other activities.
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