RMS Students Receive Perfect Scores in WordMaster Challenge
A seventh-grade team representing Rotolo Middle School competed in the recent WordMasters Challenge™—a national vocabulary competition involving nearly 150,000 students annually. The team scored an impressive 189 points out of a possible 200 in the second of three meets this year. In addition, the team tied for fifth place in the same meet.
Competing in the difficult Blue Division of the WordMasters Challenge,™ seventh-graders, Kristen Hall and Emma Kilburg, achieved an outstanding individual score of 20 out of 20 on the challenge!
Rotolo Middle School students Kristen Hall (left) and Emma Kilburg.
The WordMasters Challenge™ is an exercise in critical thinking that 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 solve the analogies helps students learn to think both analytically and metaphorically. Although most vocabulary enrichment and analogy-solving programs are designed for use by high school students, WordMasters Challenge™ materials have been specifically created for younger students in grades three through eight. They are particularly well-suited for children who are motivated by the challenge of learning new words and enjoy the logical puzzles posed by analogies.
For more information, visit the WorldMasters Challenge web site.
