Building better readers; Rotarian service project puts dictionaries in students’ hands
Third-grader Kendyl couldn't take her eyes off her new dictionary after a group of visiting local Rotarians gifted her with the book Friday.
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Jefferson Grange #167 Delivers Dictionaries to Happy Third Graders!
Jefferson Grange members David Ifert, Donna Lakin and Doris Ifert delivered 76 dictionaries to third graders at Valley Elementary School on October 3rd, 2013.
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DECATUR β In the Bibleβs Book of Judges, the way people pronounced the word βshibbolethβ helped identify whether they were from the conquering tribe or the conquered one.
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Bowling for literacy – Rotary Club of DeLand delivers 3,000 dictionaries
DELAND β The Rotary Club of DeLand recently completed its 8th Annual Bowling for Literacy/Dictionary Project.
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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) - Hundreds of third-grade students in Springfield have been given brand new dictionaries from a local publisher.
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Third-graders get free dictionaries to aid education
Nearly 1,300 third-graders throughout the Bryan school district were personally handed a dictionary from an elected official during a two-day dictionary giveaway that started Tuesday.
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Kiwanis Club of Oxford Gives the Gift of a Dictionary
The Kiwanis Club of Oxford in Mississippi has made community outreach and youth development a primary goal for the organization. Participating in The Dictionary Project for almost ten years, members…
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Cameron Elks Lodge Dictionary Project
The Dictionary Project was founded in 1995 by Mary French of Charleston, SC.
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Hendersonville Rotary Club distributes dictionaries to third-graders
You could hear the excitement grow in Jim Finch’s voice as he picked up a copy of the dictionaries the Hendersonville Rotary Club were unpacking from boxes Tuesday night at…
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Aerospace Optimist Club of Fort Worth, Texas donates dictionaries.
A new dictionary project was started in Forth Worth, Texas this week. The Aerospace Optimist Club donated 312 dictionaries to students at H.V. Helbing Elementary School.
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Elks Care and Elks Share
Greencastle Elks Lodge 1077 is again supporting the youth in the Putnam County community with three recent donations provided through a grant from the Elks National Foundation.
Read Article βSt. Marys Rotary Club passes out dictionaries
St. Marys Rotary Club participates in the Dictionary Project by passing out new dictionaries to the third-graders and teachers in the St. Marys school system.
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