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The Dictionary Project
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Mission Statement
The goal of this program is to assist all students in becoming good writers, active readers, creative thinkers, and resourceful learners by providing them with 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, so we encourage our sponsors to give dictionaries each year to children in the third grade.
Vision
With the support of local sponsors and volunteers, we want to provide a dictionary to every student in the United States. In this way we hope to help them to improve their communication skills and make the most of their education. Many of our sponsors are also taking The Dictionary Project beyond the United States to help improve literacy worldwide.
How do we buy dictionaries?
The Dictionary Project does not “sell” dictionaries. The way the project works is that you as the sponsor make a monetary donation to our organization and volunteer to distribute the books to students. By taking delivery of the books you agree that you will give them to students in the schools or programs you specify, not sell or keep them. Because we are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, books obtained through us must be given to students as “gifts.”
Why give the dictionaries to third graders?
Third Grade was chosen as the year to give dictionaries to students for two reasons.
The goal of this program is to assist all students in becoming good writers, active readers, creative thinkers, and resourceful learners by providing them with 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, so we encourage our sponsors to give dictionaries each year to children in the third grade.
Vision
With the support of local sponsors and volunteers, we want to provide a dictionary to every student in the United States. In this way we hope to help them to improve their communication skills and make the most of their education. Many of our sponsors are also taking The Dictionary Project beyond the United States to help improve literacy worldwide.
How do we buy dictionaries?
The Dictionary Project does not “sell” dictionaries. The way the project works is that you as the sponsor make a monetary donation to our organization and volunteer to distribute the books to students. By taking delivery of the books you agree that you will give them to students in the schools or programs you specify, not sell or keep them. Because we are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, books obtained through us must be given to students as “gifts.”
Why give the dictionaries to third graders?
Third Grade was chosen as the year to give dictionaries to students for two reasons.
- The first is practical: third grade is the year in which dictionary skills are taught in most schools.
- The second is no less practical, but broader in scope: third grade represents a critical juncture in a child’s education. This is the year a student makes the transition from learning to read to reading to learn.