The Dictionary Project: Elks give the gift of words
Nancy Mjelde, an active member of the Coeur d`Alene, Idaho, Lodge, has received hundreds and hundreds of thank-you letters from children over the past five years.
Language and learning go hand in hand
Third-grade students in four New Mexico counties will reap educational benefits this school year because community members are helping children become better readers and learners.
Dictionary Project defines county children’s future
Editor`s note: Judy Payne, of Nevada County Republican Women Federated, is excited about the group`s work on The Dictionary Project because of its reach into our future — all at very low cost
How do you spell a gift for words? D-i-c-t-i-o-n-a-r-y
A dictionary isn't just any book. It's one you can use over and over and over. Good spellers and precise writers need dictionaries.
Kiwanians give HUSD third graders their own dictionary
`This dictionary has more words than our others,` said Jacquelyn, Coyote Springs Elementary School third grader, after receiving her own copy of `A Student`s Dictionary` from members of the Bradsha
White Mountain Rotary Club presents third-grade students with dictionaries
All third-grade students in Navajo and Apache counties will soon have dictionaries to call their own, according to Rotary Club representative Brenda Thomas.
Dictionaries for Salome High
The Wickenburg Elks Youth Committee Chair Carolyn McDonald and her husband PER Walter recently took 144 dictionaries and 24 thesauruses to Salome High School as a gift to the 140 students and staff
Tucumcari Elks Lodge reports on completed project
A total of 216 dictionaries were distributed during the month of October, 2010. Third graders at five elementary schools received dictionaries.
Dictionaries given to third graders
Every year the Garfield Rotary Club sponsors a program called the Dictionary Project in which members of the club hand out dictionaries to all the third-grade students in their service district.
Plainfield Rotary Club presents dictionaries to third-grade students
Five teams of Rotarians went to the three elementary schools in North Plainfield and the 10 elementary schools and three charter schools in Plainfield during the week of November 15 to give a dicti