Dictionaries given to third graders around Phillips County

Members of the Malta Kiwanis, Key Club and FCCLA, along with Marday Demarais and Darlene Kolczak presented Third graders around Phillips County with dictionaries last week.

"We hope that they will be used to enhance the reading skills presently being learned in the classroom," the group wrote in a letter to those that received the dictionary.

"This dictionary, when used at home, will afford your student the opportunity to expand on the reading abilities being taught at school. When you child asks for your help in pronouncing a word, or ask what a word means, we hope you will encourage the use of the dictionary. We further hope that using a dictionary at this important developmental stage helps instill in your student a love of books and reading that will carry over into adulthood."