Last year, the Salisbury, Md., teenager spelled her second- and third-round words correctly, but she wasn’t able to make it to the semifinals. She placed 42nd out of 281 spellers competing.
“I think I’m more prepared than last year because it is my second year of competing at the national level,” Gia said. “Hopefully what I’ve learned and studied will help me in the following days of the competition.”
During a typical school week, the Wicomico Middle School eighth-grader spends two or three hours each day practicing her spelling. She works on her vocabulary by reading from a variety of authors and genres, listening to the words of classical music and looking up the origins of words that are difficult to spell.
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2 comments:
very cool
Stop playing video games kids and learn something. Good job girls
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