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Ms. Andrus from Baton Rouge, LA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Expand Our Vocabulary!

Help me give my students dictionaries to expand their vocabulary and excel at reading and writing.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Andrus's classroom raised $301

This project is fully funded

My Project

My students are eager to learn take pride in their reading and writing. By giving students precise word definitions and spellings, dictionaries support their language and vocabulary development. By providing usage examples, they help students comprehend words in context. Furthermore, dictionaries can help students discover word origins and pronunciation, which can improve their comprehension and writing and reading skills.

Because it allows people to successfully comprehend, evaluate, and interpret information, reading comprehension is crucial.

It enhances students' comprehension of the text's meaning and helps them study across topic areas. Good comprehension abilities also encourage critical thinking, which enables readers to make connections, deduce interpretations that are more complex, and apply what they have learned to actual circumstances.

Ms. Andrus Geo Prep Mid-City of Greater Baton Rouge Charter School Grades 6-8

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Baton Rouge, LA 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

72 students impacted 1donor

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary and Thesaurus, Newest Edition, Mass-Market Paperback • Amazon Business $7.87 26 $204.62

Materials cost

$204.62

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$17.90

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.07

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$255.59

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$45.10

Total project goal

$300.69

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$300.69

1 Donor

-$255.59

Donations toward project cost

-$255.59

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$0.00

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$45.10

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$0.00

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