Promoting Literacy in Our Community
The Canyon Rotary Club has been providing dictionaries to local school students for several years now. Specifically, we’ve made it our mission to give a brand new dictionary to every third grade student in the Canyon Independent School District (that includes their teachers, too). Today was another delivery day.
Here you see Canyon Rotarians Joel Richardson, Don Johnston and Marty McClish (l-r) standing at the front of a room full of more than 150 third grade students at Reeves-Hinger Elementary School in Canyon. Before the students arrived, Joel told me that he always likes to ask two questions: “Who knows what Rotary is?” and “What is literacy?”
Pretty much 100% of the time (today included), at least one student says literacy is when you throw trash on the ground. In addition to a nice chuckle, that remark provides Joel with a great opportunity to encourage them to use their new dictionaries to learn what that “literacy” word actually means.
