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what are you trying to do? >> who want everybody to have a dictionary to instruct the benefits of owning a dictionary we try to get them out in the third grade so they get into the habit of looking up words correctly and understand the meaning and multiple meanings and appreciate our language. >> what is the importance of having this physical book rather than just typing it in your phone? >> i've been doing this for 25 years, before i have had iphones and the technology we are using today. technology is what attracts us to the dictionary, that's where the word comes from so it's what holds us together as a society and really other world how we communicate. you have to be able to use

different tools in order to access information and it's primarily the age we see dictionaries or children in schools. they are more apt to learn from a book and a computer and electronic device. ... >> i tried the second-grade third-grade fourth grade fourth grade and i tried everything. i even tried the dictionary and i really found that the third grade was the optimal age because at that point, they are

learning to read and then reading to learn. so if you can encourage children and give them this tool, they have such an advantage in expanding their education. and it helps them throughout the school career. >> what is the idea for the dish or come from. >> this idea was from a woman in dropped out of tenth grade. in georgia and she understood the limits of her ability to earn money and m understand the worldun around her and what peoe were saying because she dropped out school. when she was working as a crossing guard in savannah, of 95, she saw that the children

were bringing books back and forth to school and she asked them why and they said because she was told that they couldn't take up a conference call so she bought everybody a dictionary. and she wanted their lives to have opportunities to be i guess she saw them diminished because they didn't have a large group vocabulary. so she passes in savannah. i met her and i truly and so i got to know that area. and then she died in 2000. she really has had a huge impact on people and it was a great idea to make sure that everybody has a dictionary. >> so since 1995, when you found

the dictionary project, how many dictionaries have gone out to children. >> over 30 $3m 700,000. >> how do them out there.00 >> my invitation in this project started out with writing grants and those two different organizations about this idea, they were intrigued with the idea and of course literacy is so important everybody is trying to keep people learning new things. basically summer becoming illiterate in school. so the ticket on as it literacy project. they have to have a literacy program, a charter that they implement and this was an easy program to do and really you get

the best bang for your buck. if for the amount of money that it cost a has a very long term impact. most of these people, 25 years so the children in the third grade, they've gone through harvard already. who originally received dictionaries and people to see if you're still using the dictionaries and our people that they do think they are worthwhile. an essay that they still have the dictionary and they know where it has pretty behind a hundred percent of them. and they ask, they still use the gift and they had one for two or $3. and had amazing impact on them, on their lives. >> see if several different versions of the dictionary that you sent out but like the front page of everyone has this. this dictionary belongs to and you can write your name right in there.

why are there eight different versions rated building is one that i have, and students dictionary, and a thesaurus. a students dictionary. why so many different versions. >> one of the options for the people, when ien first started this and i was writing grants. i was handing out books that account at the dollar store. a lot of the teachers didn't like it because they didn't have the words they were looking for in itor and sometimes the simple sentences to violent. so we started to look at other options for dictionaries. so i asked mariam webster to create books for this program so and i created my own dictionary