Expand your vocabulary with
 a word a day

Dictionary Project Kansas City
A Project Sponsored by
Reading Reaches, Inc. and Truman Heartland Community Foundation

Do you make a diffrence?  YES - We recieve tons of mail from teachers and kids.  Here are some recent letters from  teachers.

We also have a classroom set of 1980 Merriam-Webster's Elementary Dictionaries.  Nevertheless, the students preferred to use their "own"personal dictionaries provided by Dictionary Project Kansas City.

Again, thank you and I pray that your supporters will always see the value in providing a dictionary to a student in Kansas City who does not have access to spell check.

Sincerely,

Kim Ramsey,
Third Grade Teacher
Longan French Elementary School

November 11, 2008
Dictionary Project Kansas City

Dear Staff

Thank you for the dictionaries you provided for our third graders.  The students are using them to look up spelling words and find definitions and parts of speech.  They also help the children with writing activities and help motivate the students to spell words correctly.  The maps and other information are also quite helpful.

The children were so excited to receive their very own NEW dictinoary.  Many of the students' familty are struggling financially and not able to afford many new books for their children.  You provided an educational opportunity from my students that they would not have beenable to afford.  You made a positive difference in  my students' lives.  Thank you so much.

                  Gratefully
                   Merlene Eads, Teacher
                   Our Lady of the Angels School
                   Kansas City MO

And this email from a parent -

HI my name is Lisa Conroy. My son Nathan is a 3rd grader at Nativity of Mary in Independence Mo. Nathan has a very hard time reading and is not often interested in reading anything because of this. Last night when Nathan brought his new dictionary home he was very excited to look up words and their meaning. All night he was asking me and his dad what word we wanted him to look up for us. He wanted to find words at bedtime instead of having dad read his favorite Star Wars book to him. Again this morning he picked up the dictionary to look up words before school instead of turning on cartoons. Thank you all so much for bringing this gift to my son. We are very happy about anything that makes him want to read!! I love all the information in the back as well and we went through a number of different states together as well as some of the Declaration of Independence. Thank you, thank you, thank you. What a great thing you all are doing..     Lisa Mueller-Conroy