Most children’s books don’t start off with five-syllable words, followed by a word that describes “small to very large-sized edible sea snails.”
Twenty years ago, in 1992, Annie Plummer of Savannah, Ga., bought dictionaries and gave them to children who attended a school close to her home.
Carl Sandburg third graders in Charleston, Illinois, have benefited through the Dictionary Project for the past several years.
We had a wonderful day today passing out 113 dictionaries.
A reader who is a dictionary project sponsor sent a question to the Maine State Grange website about how to handle pictures at a school with very restrictive rules about photographing children.
A joint effort between the Kenyon and Wanamingo Lions Clubs has brought new dictionaries to the fourth-grade classrooms at Kenyon-Wanamingo elementary school.