Two Cherry Avenue Students Receive Perfect Score at Word Masters Challenge
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 2020
Two Cherry Avenue students representing Sayville Schools recently received a perfect score in the first of three meets in this year’s WordMasters Challenge™—a national vocabulary competition involving nearly 125,000 students annually.
Competing in the difficult Blue Division of the WordMasters Challenge™, fifth graders Caroline Folks and Bridget Spreckels each earned a perfect score of 20 on the challenge. Nationally, only 83 fifth graders achieved this result. Jill Martin, another Cherry Avenue student, achieved outstanding results in the meet getting a score of 19 out of 20.
The students were coached in preparation for the WordMasters Challenge™ by Elizabeth Denton.
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.
Congratulations to Caroline, Bridget, Jill, and Mrs. Denton for such outstanding achievements!
The WordMasters Challenge™ program is administered by a company based in New Jersey which is dedicated to inspiring high achievement in American schools. Further information is available at the company’s website: http://www.wordmasterschallenge.com.
wm1CarolineandBridget.jpg
wm2CarolineBridgetJill.jpg
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 2020
Two Cherry Avenue students representing Sayville Schools recently received a perfect score in the first of three meets in this year’s WordMasters Challenge™—a national vocabulary competition involving nearly 125,000 students annually.
Competing in the difficult Blue Division of the WordMasters Challenge™, fifth graders Caroline Folks and Bridget Spreckels each earned a perfect score of 20 on the challenge. Nationally, only 83 fifth graders achieved this result. Jill Martin, another Cherry Avenue student, achieved outstanding results in the meet getting a score of 19 out of 20.
The students were coached in preparation for the WordMasters Challenge™ by Elizabeth Denton.
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.
Congratulations to Caroline, Bridget, Jill, and Mrs. Denton for such outstanding achievements!
The WordMasters Challenge™ program is administered by a company based in New Jersey which is dedicated to inspiring high achievement in American schools. Further information is available at the company’s website: http://www.wordmasterschallenge.com.