Minisink Valley Kiwanis members visited Otisville Elementary School for their annual delivery of dictionaries to Otisville’s third-graders.

This is an annual gift of dictionaries part of Kiwanis’ national program called “The Dictionary Project.” The project’s goal is to assist all students in becoming good writers, active readers, creative thinkers, and resourceful learners by providing them with their own personal dictionary.

“We loved seeing students enjoying looking up various words to find their meaning, part of speech and spellings,” said Principal Julia Downey. “We are grateful to our Kiwanis friends for visiting and showing our students how valuable a dictionary is, especially in this digital age.”

The dictionaries are a gift to each student to use at school and at home for years to come. According to The Dictionary Project, educators see third grade as the dividing line between learning to read and reading to learn, so we encourage our sponsors to give dictionaries each year to children in the third grade.