Rotarians share the gift of knowledge with schoolchildren
Dictionary Project puts reference books in the hands of local third graders
By: - Delaware Online
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Donor: Middletown-Odessa Rotary Club

On Wednesday, third graders at Silver Lake Elementary watched eagerly as volunteers from the Middletown-Odessa Rotary unpacked case after case of dictionaries to give to waiting students. It was the eighth year the Rotary has participated in The Dictionary Project, a nonprofit initiative that strives to make sure every young child has access to this important reference tool so they can become an active reader, good writer and creative thinker. Most children do not own a dictionary, nor do they have access to one in their home. A dictionary in the home serves as a resource for the whole family. It improves everyone`s vocabulary and it encour...

The Delaware Youth Center

By: Tess McBeath
Monday, October 23, 2006
Donor: Delaware Youth Center

The Delaware Youth Center in Callicoon, NY was able to continue their Dictionary Project this year, in spite of the facility being destroyed by June floods. This is the fifth year the Center has distributed dictionaries to all the third graders of Sullivan West. Pictured is Mrs. Tampone`s class, who are all delighted with their gift. Center President Tess McBeath encourages the children to persevere if they can`t find a word - after she has them look the word up in their new dictionaries. Each dictionary has a bookplate inside the front cover and a place for the children to write their name so if lost, it can be returned. The kids love...

Rotary Tradition Continues

Thursday, October 05, 2006
Donor: Nanticoke Rotary Club

This is the sixth year the club has partnered with local school districts to supply dictionaries to all third graders. This year over 900 English and Spanish-English dictionaries were distributed to Seaford, Laurel, and Woodbridge districts and Seaford Christian Academy.

Rotary Clubs distribute dictionaries to area schools

Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: Rotary Club

National Dictionary Project benefits two elementary schools

By: DEBBIE RECH Staff Writer
Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: The Rotary Clubs of Kent Island and Centreville

The Rotary Clubs of Kent Island and Centreville joined in a literacy project aimed at helping local third graders. They distributed new paperback dictionaries Webster`s Dictionary New Encyclopedic Edition to a total of 296 third-graders at Bayside and Grasonville Elementary Schools. Their efforts are part of a nationwide project which aims to provide every child in the United States with a dictionary as they enter the third grade.

The nationwide Dictionary Project is the brainchild of a woman named Mary French. She got the idea from a 1995 letter to the editor printed in The Post and Courier in South Carolina . ...

Rotary Club Helps Third Graders Define `Success`

Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: Rotary Club

The Nanticoke Rotary Club in partnership with the 43 Rotary Clubs in the District and the Seaford and Woodbridge school districts provided approximately 480 dictionaries to third grade students.

Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: Rotary Club

Rotary distributes dictionaries

Sunday, August 01, 2004
Donor: Rotary Club

Nanticoke Seaford Rotary partnered recently with Woodbridge Seaford and Laurel school districts to distribute 744 dictionaries to third-graders in six elementary schools. According to Rotary President Joe Gast (Left), the project insures that each third-grade student is better equipped to learn new words and improve reading skills.

Nanticoke Seaford Rotary meets at noon each Wednesday at the Methodist Manor House on Middleford Road in Seaford . For more information, call Joe Gast at 629-4514. Above, George Farnell of Nanticoke Seaford Rotary hands out dictionaries to third-graders at Blades Elementary School . ...