Hi Everyone!
Here's the information for our Literacy contest to pass along to your local schools.

Margaret Poppell Literacy Essay Contest

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TO: Fifth Grade Teachers
FROM: Sandy Lefkowitz, Literacy Chairperson
RE: Fifth Grade Essay Contest, School Year, 2022-2023

The Broward County Retired Educators Association (BCREA) would like to invite your fifth grade students to participate in the Margaret Poppell Literacy Essay Contest sponsored by the Florida Retired Educators Association (FREA). The essay should be about the student’s experience or experiences with a grandparent or grandparent figure. The 500 word essay can be written at school as a part of a class assignment or it can be an individual student task developed at home or at school.

Guidelines:

• 1. This is an optional project.
• 2. Essays should be a maximum of 500 words, excluding a, an, and the.
• 3. The student must describe an experience with a grandparent or a grandparent figure.
• 4. The essay must reflect the ideas, vocabulary, or efforts of the student acting alone.
• 5. Adult participation is limited to proofreading and typing the final product.
• 6. The essay must have a detachable cover listing: Title, Name of student, Name of teacher, Name of school, Name of county, and Number of words.
• 7. Essays will be judged on originality, adherence to the topic, concrete ideas, and correctness of grammar, spelling and punctuation.

The local essay winner will receive a $25 gift card to Target. The winning essay will be entered in the state-wide contest with a potential cash prize of $150.