When Terri Barnett’s third-grade students practice their writing, punctuation and spelling, the children have to take turns using the dictionaries that are spread throughout the six tables in the Sul Ross Elementary classroom.
So when elected officials handed students their own copy last week during a dictionary giveaway, many of them couldn’t keep still from excitement.
“Most of them don’t have books at home, let alone a dictionary,” Barnett said.
Her students were among about 1,275 in the Bryan school district… Click Here to Continue Reading