Third-graders receive dictionaries

RANDOLPH – Third graders at Randolph Elementary received their own dictionaries as part of a distribution made possible by the Wayne Rotary Club.

The goal of the Rotary project is to assist students to complete the school year as good writers, active readers, creative thinkers, and resourceful learners by having 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.

The Wayne Rotary Club has given away more than 5,600 dictionaries since the project started in 2007. They gave 348 dictionaries this year to third graders at Wayne Public, St. Mary’s in Wayne, Winside, Wisner-Pilger, Pender, Emerson-Hubbard, Wakefield, Allen, Winebago, St. Augustine Indian Mission School, and Omaha Nation.

Rotarians who assisted with distribution at the Randolph Public Schools were Jessica Dobias, Anne Nolte and Darrell Miller, who is project chairman.