Dictionaries: a gift with real meaning
Steve Cordle
ECB Publishing, Inc.
It has been theorized that the average vocabulary stops growing at age 25. It has been shown that a deep or lengthy vocabulary is necessary to be successful in life, and the younger we can start building our vocabulary, the greater it can be. To that end, many organizations such as Kiwanis Clubs have provided dictionaries to students for several decades.
This year the Monticello Kiwanis Club continued the tradition of taking dictionaries to the third-grad