Important Announcements: 

  1. *6/13/2009
    LAD June Meeting
    9:00 A.M.Panera Bread conference room by the Library Station.
    2535 N Kansas Expy # 100 Springfield, MO 65803

    (Schools submitting 50+ entries must send a representative to this meeting.)

  2. * LAD Fair 2008-2009 has been moved to Willard High School.

  3. * New scholarship: Students submitting a prose and poetry anthology (Category 37) are eligible to win the Kathy McQueen Award and Scholarship worth $1000.00.  The Kathy McQueen Award is one of three scholarships available from LAD; it joins the Joan Collins Award for Individual Poetry Anthology and the George Gleason Award for Individual Prose Anthology.


2009 LAD Spelling Bee Winners

Results listed by grade.

Grade 1

1st
Kaleb Creason
2nd
Coy Amis
3rd
Madison Mabrey
H.M.
Lucas Burr

Grade 2

1st
Wambue Chege
2nd
Mack Best
3rd
Meg Gladieux
H.M.
Mason Hale

Grade 3

1st
Joseph Brock
2nd
Ananda Wall
3rd
Hayley Hershenson
H.M.
Rebecca Stapp

Grade 4

1st
Richa Sharma
2nd
Julian Pacheco
3rd
Kaitlyn Barnes
H.M.
Jacob Anderson


2009 LAD Fair Judging Day Results

Results listed by grade.

The results are posted here in PDF format.  If you do not have Acrobat Reader, you can download it for free.


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2009 LAD Fair

Willard High School
515 E. Jackson
Willard, MO

Grades 1-12
8:00 A.M. - 11:30 A.M.
April 25, 2009

Entries must be postmarked by March 6, 2009, or delivered in person on Friday, March 13, by 4:30.

Sponsored by the Southwest Missouri Language Arts Teachers, an affiliate of the National Council of Teachers of English

The Language Arts Fair is open to LAD members only.


Please Join LAD

A $15 individual membership entitles a member's students to full participation in LAD Fair writing categories, the spelling bee, and the scholarship competition. 

Complete the Individual Membership Form to join.



LAD Executive Board

If your school submits 50 or more entries for the Language Arts Fair, please select a representative from your school to serve on the LAD Executive Board. The officers for LAD will be elected from the members serving on the executive board. LAD must have a full slate of officers in order to be considered in good standing with NCTE; to ensure the future of the Language Arts Department of Southwest Missouri and the Language Arts Fair every spring, please consider volunteering a few hours of your time for this worthwhile cause.


*Remember, if your school participates in career ladder, hours of service on the executive board could be counted.



Spelling Bee

Schools wishing to participate in the spelling bee should complete a school membership form. This membership enables all students in a school to participate in the Language Arts Fair Spelling Bee but does not enable students to compete in the writing categories.

Please familiarize yourself with the Spelling Bee Information Sheet and the Spelling Bee Rules and Regulations. 


Complete the Spelling Bee Entry Form to register your local winners for the 2008-2009 LAD Fair Spelling Bee.

Spelling Bee lists.