Turn Students into Curious Readers with Their Own Dictionaries!
Help me give my students a spark of curiosity with Merriam-Webster Children’s/Picture Dictionaries! When I shared a few dictionaries with English learning students, every student in 3rd and 4th couldn’t stop exploring, wondering if they could keep them!
$5,544 goal
This project expired on June 6, 2025.
This project expired on June 6, 2025.
My Project
These Merriam-Webster Children’s Picture dictionaries have peaked the curiosity and sparked the internal motivation of my students! With accessibility to rich text and photographs, children will have more questions, read more complex text, and teach others about what they have learned!
My students will grow bigger, juicier vocabularies, leading to independent learning and academic success!
Your donation for our children will make a huge difference for underpaid, underprivileged, socially-isolated families by gifting inquiry that will be theirs forever!
And last but not least, these engaging and curiosity-making dictionaries will go home with each child so they will able to learn over the summer and forever!
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
125 students impacted
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