A dictionary teaches a child how to approach a problem and use critical thinking skills by sounding out the word and finding it in the dictionary. This simple task gives them a feeling of self-confidence and satisfaction that they cannot get online.

Elks give students dictionaries

 These students at Edgewood were recently presented their own dictionary compliments of the Marysville Elks # 1130.
This is the fourth year for the Dictionary Project which distributes close to 600 dictionaries to third graders in the Marysville, North Union, Fairbanks, St. Paul, St. John, and Trinity school systems. The Elks feel that a child cannot do his or her best work without a dictionary and the teachers know that their students have consistent access to a tool for homework and in-class assignments.