West TN Healthcare Foundation Donates Dictionaries to 3rd Graders
JACKSON, Tenn.- Every third grade student in Jackson-Madison County Schools came home, not in a new car, but with a new book. A free dictionary that was donated from the West Tennessee Healthcare Foundation. Students at Lincoln Elementary School were excited to actually have a dictionary to call their own. In third grade, spelling, reading, and word comprehension are vital for their education. At a young age, sharing is not all that easy or effective when a classroom has only one dictionary. Alaina Butler is a third grade teacher at Lincoln Elementary and was so happy to see her students using the new dictionaries. “It’s wonderful because it’s something they can have and actually touch. They can keep inside their desk or take home with them.” said Butler. These dictionaries include a lot inside them, from words to periodic tables, and much more valuable information to every students that they will need in their education. “Things that we have talked about this year so for them to actually see it again was very exciting for them,” said Butler. Educators do not expect their students to read the whole book. They want these students to be inspired to take their education to a new level and have a love for reading. “I want student to just read a book, learn a new word, look at a planet, look at maybe the 16th president and see it was Abe Lincoln, learn something new, something this week that they didn’t know before they went home,” said West Tennessee Healthcare donor management director Scott Conger.
