Southeast third graders receive dictionaries from Echo Grange
Mansfield’s local chapter of the National Grange has provided its yearly donation of dictionaries to Southeast Elementary School’s third graders.
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Arno A. French, 1950 – 2012
Arno Allen French, founding president of the Dictionary Project, passed away on Wednesday, February 15, 2012, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Some ado about prepositions
Joe Mc Kay’s “Crazy About Words” ...toasting our language since 2003!
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Dillard Elementary students love their 3rd-grade dictionaries
Dillard Elementary School is one of the nine schools (over 750 books) where students received dictionaries from the Kiwanis Club of Central Broward.
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Elks generosity long on meaning for kids
Third grader John knows that hippopotomonstrasesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words, thanks to the Greenfield Lodge of Elks.
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I was reading through all of the thank-you notes that we received from the students we distributed dictionaries to this past fall, and I wanted to share a couple of…
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Students benefit from Rotary project
As one of its literacy projects, the Struthers Rotary Club distributes more than 300 dictionaries to all fourth-grade students in Struthers, Campbell and Lowellville.
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Sunset Rotary Club distributes hundreds of dictionaries to students
If you were going to give a child one book to ensure a successful education, it might as well be a book with all the words in it.
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The Valley of the Meramec Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution from Washington, Mo., donated 24 dictionaries January 31st to the 3rd-grade class at the Hermann Elementary School.
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Oakhurst Sierra Sunrise Rotary dictionary project
Oakhurst Sierra Sunrise Rotarians traveled to mountain area schools in North Fork, Spring Valley in O'Neals, Rivergold and Coarsegold Elementary in Coarsegold and Raymond-Knowles Elementary on Janu
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Elks give dictionaries to students
Temecula Valley Elks Lodge #2801 has again joined with The Dictionary Project, a national organization, to give student dictionaries to third graders.
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