Word of the day promotes literacy in Ontario

Among the activities employed to improve the vocabulary of students at St. Joseph's College School is a word of the day, broadcast in each morning's announcements, defined and used in a sentence. Yesterday's word could have been estimable—praiseworthy or commendable—as in: The Grade 10s posted estimable test scores. In Ontario-wide Grade 10 literacy test results, 90% of students at the Catholic high school on Wellesley Street in downtown Toronto passed. That was six percentage points higher than the provincial average of 84%. "It's a priority for the school," said principal Maxine Bilyk, noting the school has a high percentage of students who speak a language other than English at home. Read the article at TheStar.com.