The Noontime Rotary Club in Santa Maria is celebrating the start of the school year by gifting hundreds of dictionaries to third grade students in the Santa Maria Bonita School District. Members of ...

Los Angeles — When actor Tony Randall first heard the word “campestral,” he lunged for his favorite dictionary. The Felix Unger of words — def. finnicky, persnickety, discriminating — Mr. Randall ...

Third-grade student Justin Santos displays his winning prize and new dictionary after getting the correct answer in the dictionary treasure hunt activity. — Photo courtesy of Rotary Club of Lahaina ...

As Elks Lodge 1254 members began unboxing hundreds of dictionaries to prepare for distribution on Friday, Secondary Transition Education Program student Justin Mannion couldn’t help but express his ...

MILWAUKEE -- Before kids learn to read, they need to know what words mean. Dictionaries play an important role in that process, but some kids don't have the luxury of owning one. One man is trying to ...

Members of the Rotary Club of Lahaina Sunset pose with the winners of the dictionary treasure Hunt activity. Photo courtesy Rotary Club of Lahaina Sunset The Rotary Club of Lahaina Sunset presented ...

Old-fashioned paper dictionaries have captured the interest of Clinton Public School’s third and fourth-grade students. The dictionaries were a gift from the Clinton Sunrise Rotary Club as part of ...

LAGUNA BEACH – The Rotary Club of Laguna Beach has distributed 261 dictionaries to local students. The project aimed to encourage literacy, a worldwide goal of Rotary International. In Laguna Beach, ...

How would you support a student who did not speak English and had no one else at the school who spoke his or her native language? I was that student some 20 years ago. Coming from the war-torn former ...