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Ms. Ofstie from Brooklyn NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Student Dictionaries Would Be So Nice!

The cost of 20 American Heritage Student Dictionaries is $407, including shipping and <a target="new" href="http://www.donorschoose.org/html/fulfillment.htm" onclick="g_openWindow('http://www.donorschoose.org/html/fulfillment.htm', 300, 800, 'fulfillwindow');return false;">fulfillment</a>.

  • $460 goal

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Hello! I'm a 6th grade English as a Second Language (ESL) teacher in a very poor area of Brooklyn, NY. My students come from all different countries around the world, such as Haiti, Pakistan, Mexico, Uzbekistan, Panama, and Bangladesh, to name a few. The set of dictionaries that I currently have in my classroom are standard adult dictionaries, and thus are very inappropriate for my group of students. Doing dictionary exercises are futile, as the words are hard to find and the definitions are difficult to understand. The wording of the definitions are just not conducive to learning for 11-year-old beginning level English language learners! I found a dictionary in the bookstore the other day that made me so excited. It's called the American Heritage Student Dictionary. It is specifically for students in grades 6-9 with full-color photos and illustrations. A dictionary such as this would be so effective for teaching my students dictionary skills. As it is now, I can't tell my students to look up unknown words in the dictionary, as the definitions provide more confusion than assistance. These beautiful dictionaries would help my students learn new vocabulary, alphabetization skills, and dictionary skills for this school year and many, many years to come.

Ms. Ofstie
Grades 6-8

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
The American Heritage Student Dictionary American Heritage Staff (Editor), Joseph P. Pickett (Introduction) • Barnes and Noble $15.96 20 $319.20

Materials cost

$319.20

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

3rd party payment processing fee

Fulfillment labor & materials

Total project cost

$377.20

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$82.80

Total project goal

$460.00

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $460.00

6 Donors

-$443.14

Donations toward project cost

-$377.20

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$65.94

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$16.86

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