WCCUSD Receives 1,704 Dictionaries!

1. WCCUSD Receives 1,704 Dictionaries!

2. 3rd Graders at Title 1 Schools Received a FREE Dictionary! • Bayview • Chavez • Coronado • Dover • Downer • Fairmont • Ford • Grant • Highland • King • Lake • Lincoln • Montalvin • Nystrom • Peres • Riverside • Sheldon • Stege • Tara Hills • Verde • Washington • Wilson

3. Community All-Call Hello Community Partners, The California Dictionary Project has provided WCCUSD with enough dictionaries for all third grade students enrolled in our Elementary Title-I schools!  The Dictionary Project’s mission is to provide all 3rd graders in the Bay Area with a dictionary at third grade, the year in which dictionary skills are taught and to support a grade that represents a critical juncture in a child’s education.  Third grade is the year that a student makes the transition from learning to read to reading to learn. We Need Your Help! We are asking our community partners to help us out in our upcoming “Dictionary Day” at which time we will give away the dictionaries to all 3rd graders. You can help us by presenting to one class that day using a fun and engaging script that introduces and reinforces the importance of being able to use a dictionary (see attachment). If you are interested in introducing the dictionaries to a third grade class please register by completing our online RSVP Form or by contacting Susana Coracero at 510-307-4596 or at scoracero@wccusd.net. We anticipate presenting the script will take 20 minutes; however, we seek 1 hour of your time to include preparation and travel time for this purpose.  We will take the lead in identifying a school for you or you can share your school of preference. We look forward to having our students meet their local community member who are working to improve the living conditions of WCCUSD families and students! In partnership,

4. Community Partners

5. DICTIONARY DAY!Script for Classroom Presentation Community volunteers follow a script: • Student meet and learn the role/field of the Community volunteers by looking up a word that describes their work in the community. • Student look up various words and work together to learn how to look up words. • Students learn the importance of a dictionary.

6. Dictionary Day at WCCUSDDecember 14th and 15th, 2011 Stege Elementary Dover Elementary

7. Dictionary Day at Stege

8. Board member Antonio Medrano Presenting Dictionaries at Stege

9. Word Search

10. Dover Dictionary Day

11. San Pablo Mayor Cecilia Valdez Presenting Dictionaries

12. Word Search

13. Excited Owners of Dictionaries!