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Reading 2025 book — Derby-Shelton Rotarians are out in force once again bringing the joy of reading to students in kindergarten and grades 1-3 in Derby and Shelton Schools as part of Connecticut Loves to Read. This year there’s a special “peace” theme to the readings in line with the club being a Peacebuilder […]

Rotarians Bringing Reading to Schools

April 27, 2025 in News / Reading (updated on May 9, 2025)

Connecticut Loves to Read – and so do Derby-Shelton Rotarians as they are once again fanning out across schools in Derby and Shelton to read to students in Kindergarten through Grade 3. This year’s readers and their schools are: Carolyn Dow, Mohegan School Ernie Luise, Holy Trinity Catholic Academy Jack […]

Rotarians Read to Students

March 18, 2024 in events / Reading (updated on March 27, 2024)

Derby-Shelton Rotary kept up a long-standing tradition over the last few weeks by visiting all the third-grade classrooms in the public and private schools in Derby and Shelton to deliver a special gift to all of the students. That gift was their very own dictionary. The following schools received a […]

Rotary distributes over 500 dictionaries

November 9, 2023 in News / Program / Reading (updated on November 9, 2023)

Rotarians have returned to the classroom over the last month to read and donate books to Kindergarten and grades 1, 2 and 3 in Derby Shelton. This is the Club’s annual participation in the Read Across America effort. Though the official day for the event was March 2 this year, […]

Rotarians in the Classroom

April 7, 2023 in Program / Reading

One of the favorite programs of Derby-Shelton Rotarians has been their participation in the Read Across America Program. Rotarians have been visiting the lower grades in schools in Derby in Shelton for years to read to students and then to donate the books to the school libraries. VOVID made in-person […]

Rotarians Return to Read Across America

April 20, 2022 in events / Reading / Uncategorized (updated on May 13, 2022)

Derby-Shelton Rotarians are gearing up once again to deliver a powerful learning tool to every third grader in Shelton and Derby schools. This annual program sends Rotarians into each of the grammar schools in each of the towns to deliver a dictionary to each and every third grader. More than […]

Rotarians Delivering Words!

October 10, 2019 in Program / Reading (updated on July 3, 2020)

Kim Ryan-Caro is once again coordinating Derby-Shelton Rotary’s participation in the Read Across America program. Many members are involved in visiting elementary schools in Derby and Shelton to read the books pictured above and to then donate the books to the schools. This is an annual event for Derby-Shelton Rotary […]

Derby-Shelton Rotarians Participating in Read Across America

March 18, 2019 in Program / Reading (updated on July 3, 2020)

Literacy is certainly one of, if not the, most important skills picked up in school and the Derby-Shelton Rotary Club is playing a key role in helping third graders throughout Derby and Shelton pick up the necessary skills by providing them with their very own dictionary. The Club is once […]

Rotary putting “Words” into action

October 11, 2018 in News / Program / Reading (updated on July 3, 2020)

Jack Walsh and Arlene Greco were just two of this year’s readers. Members of the Derby-Shelton Rotary Club spent a lot of time in classrooms in schools in Derby and Shelton in recent weeks participating in the Read Across America Program. Rotarians had a lot of fun reading to children […]

Rotarians “Read Across America”

April 12, 2018 in Program / Reading (updated on July 3, 2020)