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.

More Than 10 Years Later, Third-Graders Across the Area Are Still Getting Dictionaries

When Kansas City resident Chris Hope started Dictionary Project KC, he just wanted to support literacy. About 300,000 dictionaries later, he’s helping every third-grader in the eight-county metro area get a personal reference tool to keep. The dictionaries are an edition assembled by the founder of the national Dictionary Project, Mary French. They’re written specifically to be at a mid-elementary level and are small...
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