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$502 goal
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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.
I am a fifth grade teacher teaching in Los Angles Unified School District in the Lincoln Heights Community. We are in dire need of dictionaries and thesauri for my classroom. It is often difficult for my students to understand their language arts text or their science text because my students do not have the necessary vocabulary. Currently, we have dictionaries that are not age appropriate. Thus, in the classroom, my students are not able to look up the words they do not understand or are uncertain how to spell. I believe that it is important for my students to have regular access to age appropriate dictionaries and thesauri whereby the use of which will expand their vocabularies, improve their self-expression, and enhance their ability to voice their opinions. Most of my students are English learners. Often, my students translate for their parents. Use of the requested materials will enable them to learn to share their thoughts even clearer with their parents.
By utilizing these new American Heritage Student Dictionaries and Thesauri, my students will be able to learn the spelling and vocabulary necessary to help them further develop their English language skills. Perhaps in the near future they can be a spelling bee champ! Right now, I teach twenty-seven students in my class. If you could please help fund the seventeen sets of dictionaries and thesauri, it would be wonderful! Thank you for your time!
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