For the second year in a row, all third grade students in the twenty- eight District 11 grade schools received their own personal dictionaries.
Anoka-Hennepin Educational Foundation along with the Rotary Clubs of Anoka, Blaine/Ham Lake, Coon Rapids and Ramsey have joined with Rotary District 5960 to use this project as their `Avenue of Service of Literacy`. It is planned that 3,000 plus books will be provided to these students.
This effort is in concert with the national Dictionary Project based in Charleston, S.C., a 501 ( c ) (3) non-profit organization dedicated to providing Dictionaries to students throughout the United States and now moving into other countries. This organization has been able to return ninety-five cents of every dollar to the purchase of Dictionaries. Last year, 2,332,491 books were given to students in the U.S., and so far 7,393,070 books have been placed since the organization was founded.
Educators see third grade as a key grade in learning to read and reading to learn.
For this school year, the Rotary Club of Coon Rapids is the sponsoring organization. The Anoka Rotary Club was the sponsor the previous school year.
The Dictionaries are paperback and are an excellent Dictionary for third graders. The last 200 pages are a reference-type book with items students can use for other projects such as maps, measures, presidents` biographies, 50 states with a summary
