Better late than never...

The word of the week for September 27 to October 1, 2010 is perseverance.

The word of the week for September 20-24, 2010 is...

We are LIVE today

The Grand Forks Central Literacy Committee members welcome you to our blog, officially LIVE today. The committee is working hard with teachers, administration, staff, and students to help students at Grand Forks Central High School become more literate.

We've got programs up and running as well as works in progress. One of our programs, Literary Lunches, begins today. Students will have the chance to eat lunch and listen to area celebrities read selections from works they've chosen.  Today's reader, Ryan Kasowski, is a co-captain of the University of North Dakota's football team and a Grand Forks Central graduate. The schedule of each week's readers is in this blog's sidebar.

Since the beginning of the 2010-2011 school year, we've had a word of the week. Each week's word is showcased in a Wordle poster; those posters are displayed in the building. Again, check out the sidebar. You'll find there a slideshow of our words.

Another Wordle update

Grand Forks Central's word of the week for September 7-10, 2010 is RESPONSIBILITY, one of the Character Education words that are part of the Grand Forks Public School District's Character Education program.

FYI: Wordles for words of the week will appear in a slideshow on the sidebar of this blog.

Watch for Wordles

To increase student awareness of vocabulary and to have fun, Grand Forks Central is featuring a word a week. This words will appear with some of their synonyms on posters throughout the school.

The word for the week of August 30 to September 6, 2010 was INFER. (Check out the Wordle above)

If you want to know more about Wordle, click here.