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Personal Spelling Dictionaries

School:: Valrico Elementary School
Category:: English Language Arts
Teacher/ Administrator:: Yesenia Montefusco
: 140374
Students Impacted:: 50
Grade Levels Impacted:: Pre K - 5
Date:: September 21, 2023

Investor

Thank you to the following investor for funding this grant.

Suncoast Credit Union - $314.07

Project Goal

I hope to provide the ESOL students their own personal spelling dictionaries. These tools will help develop communication and comprehension skills of our students.

How Project Benefits Students

This will provide my students with some structure as they develop their decoding and spelling skills.
Spelling facilitates communication. By following the same rules for spelling words, we can all understand the text we read. Spelling avoids confusion. If you write with intent and proper spelling, the receiver of that text will understand it.

Expected Outcome(s)

As the students utilize it will impact their reading skills.
Spelling and reading build and rely on the same mental representation of a word. Knowing the spelling of a word makes the representation of it sturdy and accessible for fluent reading. Especially in children, learning to spell helps your young one to become a better reader. Learning how to spell helps reading. This will be monitored throughout the year as the kids complete their diagnostics on FAST or Iready.

Detailed Cost Summary

This is the total cost for 75 personal dictionaries for primary student (K-2) and intermediate students (3-5)

Items

#	Item Description	Total Cost
1	My Amazing Spelling Dictionary 25 copies (primary)	$224.75
2	My Spelling Dictionary "Busy b" 50 copies (intermediate)	$89.32
	Total:	$314.07

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