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CONGRATULATIONS WORDMASTERS CHALLENGE WINNERS - Posted: 28-Mar-08
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Three students representing St. James Episcopal
School recently won highest honors in this year's
Wordmaster's Challenge - a national language arts competition
entered by over 230,000 students annually, which consists of three
seperate meets held at intervals during the school year.
Competing in the difficult Blue Division of the
Challenge, sixth grader Freddie Hole, seventh grader Ellen Morris,
and eighth grader Kristen Gillespy all earned perfect scores in the
year's second meet, held in February. In the entire country 85
sixth graders, 66 seventh graders and 37 eighth graders earned
perfect scores.
The WordMasters Challenge is an exercise in critical thinking,
which first encourages students to become familiar with a set of
interesting new words (considerably harder than grade level), and
then challenges them to use those words to complete analogies
expressing various kinds of logical relationships. Working to
resolve the Challenge analogies helps students learn to think both
analytically and metaphorically. Though most vocabulary-boosting
and analogy-solving activities have been created for high school
students, the WordMasters materials have been specifically designed
for younger students, in grades three through eight. They are
particularly well suited for able and interested children, who rise
to the challenge of learning new words and enjoy the logical
puzzles posed by analogies.
The WordMasters Challenge has been administered for the past 21
years by a company based in Allendale, New Jersy, which is
dedicated to inspiring high achievement in American schools. The
students will participate in one more meet in the coming months,
and medals and certificates will be awarded in June to those who
achieved and/or improved the most during the course of the
year.
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