As the culminating event for their year-long study of new vocabulary words, fifth grade students at Westbrook School were asked to choose a word and create a costume that best described the chosen word. District reading specialist, Irene Michaud, and school Principal, Dr. Joan Oberer, were the judges of the vocabulary parade’. Fifth grade teachers, Christine Errichiello, Tanja Lane and Sharon McNamee, Irene Michaud, district reading coordinator, and Westbrook School