{"id":12414,"date":"2013-11-13T08:47:20","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T12:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vps70863.inmotionhosting.com\/~nationalgrange\/\/?p=12414"},"modified":"2018-02-22T14:58:49","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T14:58:49","slug":"words-for-thirds-tualco-grange-celebrates-10th-year-of-giving-dictionaries-to-third-grade-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vps70863.inmotionhosting.com\/~nationalgrange\/words-for-thirds-tualco-grange-celebrates-10th-year-of-giving-dictionaries-to-third-grade-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Words for Thirds: Tualco Grange celebrates 10th year of giving dictionaries to third grade kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vps70863.inmotionhosting.com\/~nationalgrange\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/202-Tualco-dictionaries.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12415 alignright\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/vps70863.inmotionhosting.com\/~nationalgrange\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/202-Tualco-dictionaries-300x258.jpg\" alt=\"202-Tualco-dictionaries\" width=\"300\" height=\"258\" \/><\/a>BY POLLY KEARY | MONROE MONITOR<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It\u2019s Dictionary Day at Fryelands Elementary on Friday, and every kid in class is peering into a brand-new, bright yellow paperback as Leslie Wells explains how to use them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She talks about how to find words, but more than that, she directs them to the back of the book, where appendices contain information about the states, about weights and measurements and more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThis book can help you be successful for years,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wells is from the Tualco Grange, and this marks the 10th year in a row of the \u201cWords for Thirds\u201d program, in which the grange buys a dictionary for every third grade student in the district.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt started out as a National Grange project,\u201d said Wells.\u201dThey sent out word to all the granges. Our state adopted it as a state program and then we adopted it. The first year we distributed dictionaries was 2004. Those kids are now out of high school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 130 or so members of the Tualco Grange raise the money for the dictionaries by winning prize money for their grange display at the fair, which can net them several hundred dollars. They also hold pancake breakfasts twice a year, and that seems to be enough to buy the dictionaries in bulk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY POLLY KEARY | MONROE MONITOR It\u2019s Dictionary Day at Fryelands Elementary on Friday, and every kid in class is peering into a brand-new, bright yellow paperback as Leslie Wells explains how to use them. 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