Dear Rotary Mebers, Thank you for the dictionary! I love it! I especially like the information about the planets. I will always keep it forever. It’s my favorite. Thank you, Jonathan

Dear Skaneateles Rotary Club, I was in my classroom working and my teacher said soon we will go down to the stage and accept a dictionary with a load of extraordinary other things too. I reminded myself that my special friend was coming. I thought a dictionary would be on my desk and there was one. My friend Rachael told me all about it.... Read More

Dear Rotary Members, I love my new dictionary. I read it every day. I love looking up words in it. I also like looking at the sign language alphabet. I love looking at the longest word in the back of the dictionary. Sincerely, Graeson

Dear Rotary Members, Wow! I got a dictionary! I will keep this dictionary forever. I will never lose this dictionary. Now I always spell correctly. Thank you very much! Your friend, Ava

This is the seventh year the three clubs have been handing out dictionaries to the third graders. This is one of the best youth literacy projects an organization can be involved in.

Have been doing since NY state’s inception of project–it is heartwarming to see young faces when they are told that the books are theirs personally.

This is our 5th year of distributing dictionaries to the schools in Picayune and Carriere, and the students love them!

This is the third year we have participated and each year we have added another school. The dictionaries are especially appreciated by our ESL students who, generally speaking, do not own any books in English. The dictionary then becomes a resource for the entire family.

This is our sixth year. Two to three Kiwanis club members choose one of the 19 elementary schools, and set up a date and time to distribute the dictionaries. We give a 20 minute presentation for the children about the book, and then hand them out. The kids (and the teachers) LOVE the information section in A Student’s Dictionary. The boys and girls are... Read More

The five Rotary Clubs in Alachua County, Florida, have been delivering dictionaries to all the 3rd graders in Alachua County public schools for over 8 years. It’s an easy project that brings joy to Rotarians, teachers and the students. Great program!