Around South County: Big literacy push at area schools

Edgewater Elementary School hosted a vocabulary parade at the school on Friday. Each of the 400 students had to independently find an unfamiliar word and then dress in costume to illustrate the meaning. This was the second year that the school held the word parade.

Megan King, fourth-grade teacher at the school who serves on the school's literacy committee, heard about other schools doing a vocabulary parade and thought that it would be a good alternative to the traditional Halloween parade. She presented the idea to Principal Barry Fader, and he embraced it.

Third-grade teacher Julie Hesenperger, who also serves on the...