\nThe books were a gift from the Rotary Club of\u00a0 Peoria North, which this week provided dictionaries to every third grade student \u2014 about 1,100 kids in all \u2014 in Peoria School District 150.
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\n\u201cI think it\u2019s really cool. I\u2019ve never had a dictionary, at least not one this big before,\u201d Taya said as she continued to search the book for new and interesting words to impress her classmates.<\/p>\n
\nThis is the second-year the Rotary Club has provided dictionaries to Peoria school children. The books were funded by a combination of contributions by Rotary members and a grant from the Rotary International Foundation.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cOne of Rotary\u2019s major emphasis is literacy. A lot of Rotarys do dictionary giveaways to students,\u201d said Ron Riggins, a member of Rotary Club of Peoria North\u2019s dictionary committee and a past club president. \u201cWe truly hope this will help the kids through their school years to improve their spelling, writing and vocabulary.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nFor more complete details, read tomorrow\u2019s Journal Star or check pjstar.com later.
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Read the original article from Journal Star<\/a>.<\/p>\n Distributed via Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n Destinie Stringer proudly held onto her new dictionary, a smile illuminating her small face. \u201cIt has my name in it,\u201d the third grader said to her friend Catera Anderson, who also held open a brand new dictionary. Nearby, Taya Ferguson pointed out the longest word in the dictionary to her friends, Alexis Carter and Jonathon […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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