The Rotary Club of North Jackson, Mississippi, recently distributed 450 Webster’s Encyclopedic Dictionary to the 3rd graders in five local public schools.
The students really enjoyed our visit and the dictionaries. I'm sure they will get a lot of use out of them. This project is sponsored by the Rotary Club of College Park, Maryland.
Nearly 3,000 third grade Anoka-Hennepin students will get a new dictionary this school year.
Access to dictionaries is an important factor in learning to read.
Starting two weeks ago and continuing through January, free dictionaries are being distributed to third graders in every school in Hernando County, reaching nearly 1,800 students.
The Laurinburg Rotary Club has completed its annual dictionary project after distributing more than 475 copies of the student dictionary to all third graders in the Scotland County school system.