Madison Rotary distributes dictionaries to every 3rd grader attending school in Madison. 22 volunteers are need to visit classrooms in all schools and spend 1 hour in classrooms. Here is the schedule: Central Avenue, Oct 27, 1-2 pm, St. Vincents, Oct 30th, 12:50 to 1:50, Kings Road, November 1st, 1-2 pm, Tory J,. November 2nd, 2:15-3:15 pm. CLICK the above button to sign up to volunteer. Click Read More for full details on Madison Rotary's dictionary project
The goal of the Dictionary Project is to help all students in completing the school year as good writers, active readers and creative thinkers. It is a community effort on the part of the Madison Rotary designed to improve student literacy by providing third grade students with a gift of their own PERSONAL DICTIONARIES to use in school and at home for years to come.
Educators see the third grade as the dividing line between learning to read and reading to learn. The Madison Rotary Club has participated in this project for more than six years now following a pattern each year in October of providing every third grader in the Madison Public Schools and St. Vincent Martyr School with their own personalized copy of A Student’s Dictionary, which is a 524-page resource. Approximately 400 students in eleven third-grade classes will receive dictionaries this year.
A Student Dictionary, however, is more than a dictionary; it is also a Gazetteer! It includes over 150 pages of supplemental information including the Constitution of the U.S., the Declaration of Independence, brief biographies of all U. S. presidents, maps of the seven continents, and information about all 50 states and more than 175 countries in the world as well information on the planets in the solar system and lots more.