DMSB ROTARY DELIVERS 820 DICTIONARIES TO LOCAL THIRD GRADE STUDENTS

Members of the Del Mar-Solana Beach Rotary Club delivered 820 dictionaries recently to third grade students in 11 public schools covering Del Mar, Solana Beach, and Carmel Valley. They also talked to the students about studying hard, helping others, and the ethical guidelines contained in Rotary’s “Four-Way Test.”

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The dictionaries give students not only the ability to have a reference book at their fingertips but also the joy of owning (and marking up) their very own books. The goal is to assist all students in becoming active readers, good writers, creative thinkers, and resourceful learners by providing them with their own personal dictionary to use at school and at home. Dictionary skills are usually taught in the third grade because this is when students transition from “learning to read” to “reading to learn.”

Although a number of students have tablets or computers, even they find the handy dictionaries helpful and fun to read. Mariebelle Oliva, a third grade teacher at Ashley Falls, said, “Thank you for taking the time to donate dictionaries to our third graders. We definitely use them during Language Arts and building vocabulary.”