Students and staff at
Crown Point Elementary recently joined together to display some of their favorite words and help prepare each other for the FCAT during the annual Vocabulary Parade.
Inspired by the book Miss Alaineus, A Vocabulary Disaster by Debra Frazier, the Vocabulary Parade was planned by the school’s Reading Team.
The biggest challenge, according to second-grade teacher Devy Pasco, was planning how to give all students the opportunity to not only participate in the parade, but also watch their peers as they participated, and discovered the route around school. In a school with a student population of nearly 1,200, this was no easy task.
The solution was to have two parades, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, and have half of the students from each grade participate in one of the time slots. This allowed students from every classroom the opportunity to see a mixture of students from kindergarten through fifth grade.
Pasco also said the Reading Team decided at the beginning of the year to have the parade right before FCAT to help students with their vocabulary.
“Vocabulary is such an important component for the test, so we are really glad that the students will have the parade to reinforce the words they have been learning in class,” said Pasco.
Each class was given the task to pick an academic subject, such as math, reading, science, etc., and then pick their theme and words.
Student Peyton H. came to school dressed as his word, cube. His costume was a rubik’s cube, and he also displayed a poster with the definition of his word and a list of all the different types of cubes.
"Seeing the look on the students' faces and how proud they were to display their words was great," said Pasco. "I hope when they think of the Vocabulary Parade they remember that words can be fun and meaningful, and that it helped them find the fun in learning."
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