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Dictionaries Spark Curiosity of CPS Students

If you think today’s youth are only interested in the latest video game or technological advance, think again.  Old-fashioned paper dictionaries have captured the interest of Clinton Public School’s 3rd & 4th graders.  The dictionaries were a gift from the Clinton Sunrise Rotary Club as part of Rotary’s Dictionary Project.  Rotarians Lynn Arnold, Megan Jones-Holt, Peter Sandrian, and Andrew West distributed the books at a school assembly in early December.

The goal of this program, which started in Savannah, GA in 1992, is to assist all students in becoming good writers, active readers, creative thinkers, and resourceful learners by providing them with their own personal dictionary. The dictionaries are a gift to each student to use at school and at home for years to come. Educators see third grade as the dividing line between learning to read and reading to learn.  Nationwide, 16,968,662 children have received a dictionary to date; 2,418,522 dictionaries were given to students in 2011.

The students wrote letters to the Rotary Club thanking them for the Students Dictionary.  Many expressed their appreciation to Rotary for the book.  Some conveyed other sentiments.  Liam wrote, “I lerned the longest work in English languae.  Although I can’t pronounce it.”  Bobby said, “My favorite page was page 517. It had a picture of all of the planets in our solar sistem.”  Hunter related, “I love the calendar and the outer space.  Also the Presidents and the map of all of the states.” 

You can see samples of the student letters by clicking here.

The Students Dictionary is published by The Dictionary Project, Inc. and includes over 150 pages of supplemental information in the back. Key features include the Constitution of the U.S., the Declaration of Independence, brief biographies of all U. S. presidents, world maps, and information about all 50 states, countries of the world, and the planets in our solar system.  

One of the CPS students’ favorite discoveries was on the last page of the book – the longest word in the English language.  I’m not going to tell you what that is though.  Go look it up in your dictionary!

The Clinton Sunrise Rotary Club meets every Thursday morning at 7:30am at the Clinton Fire House, 1 New Street, across from the Clinton Post Office.  For more information about the club or membership visit www.clintonsunriserotary.org.

 

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