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Old Fashioned Dictionaries For Third Graders

Dictionaries for the Yukon-Kuskokwim Region's third graders.
Donlin Gold

Third graders in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Region are getting dictionaries courtesy of Donlin Gold.

This is the seventh year in a row that regional third graders have received personal dictionaries from the company.

Community Relations Coordinator Danny Twitchell says that the goal is to help them become “better writers, active readers, creative thinkers, and more resourceful learners.”

These are hardcover dictionaries; no internet or computer required.

Google, the free online research tool used by many, began in 1998; Wikipedia in 2001. But many village households still don't have much in the way of internet access. 

Johanna Eurich's vivid broadcast productions have been widely heard on National Public Radio since 1978. She spent her childhood speaking Thai, then learned English as a teenager and was educated at a dance academy, boarding schools and with leading intellectuals at her grandparents' dinner table in Philadelphia.