Useful Tips for Presenting Dictionaries to Students
If you are wondering how to present to grade-school children, here is a sample presentation from the Kiwanis Foundation of South Lyon. This message is delivered verbally to students by Kiwanis members when the books are distributed. Students are also informed of the vast array of information contained in the dictionaries, which really excites them. To the 3rd Grade Students of Dolsen Elementary School:... Read More
District Governor Rod Chisholm, Lions of Texas
PDG Cal and Lion Joyce Lawson of the Converse Lions Club, on behalf of their grand-daughter Isabella Lawson, donated student dictionaries to her class and four other grade classes at Longs Creek Elementary School. Principal, Mr. Ford, and teacher Mrs. Carlin (project coordinator) presented letters of appreciation as well as thank-you notes from all the students involved for the thoughtfulness and generosity of our... Read More
More Than 10 Years Later, Third-Graders Across the Area Are Still Getting Dictionaries
When Kansas City resident Chris Hope started Dictionary Project KC, he just wanted to support literacy. About 300,000 dictionaries later, he’s helping every third-grader in the eight-county metro area get a personal reference tool to keep. The dictionaries are an edition assembled by the founder of the national Dictionary Project, Mary French. They’re written specifically to be at a mid-elementary level and are small... Read More
Bert Kuhn, 3rd grade teacher, Wakarusa Elementary School, Nappanee Rotary Club
We received a blue class set a few years ago. I use these until the yellow Rotary ones come. I will speak for my class, but my students use the blue dictionaries a lot. We are working on dictionary skills right now and they use them often. They use them weekly when looking up their WOW words. I make it a big deal to... Read More
Shelly Lengacher, 3rd grade teacher, Wakarusa Elementary School, Nappanee Rotary Club
My class uses the Rotary dictionaries and I would like to have one for each student. I do not have enough blue dictionaries in my classroom set for each student so having their own would be great. The Rotary Club Of Nappanee fulfilled this request and delivered dictionaries to excited teachers and students at Wakarusa Elementary School.