Word Masters 17-18
Rush Creek Elementary
What is the WordMasters Challenge?
The WordMasters Challenge is a national competition for students in grades 3-8 that encourages growth in vocabulary and verbal reasoning. Each year, over 125,000 students from some of the best public and private schools throughout the United States participate in the WordMasters Challenge.
Unlike other language arts competitions for this age group - which focus on grammar, punctuation, spelling and other language mechanics - the WordMasters Challenge helps students learn to think both analytically and metaphorically.
The contest addresses higher-level word comprehension and verbal reasoning in two ways:
- It challenges students to complete analogies based on relationships among words they have learned.
- It bases the analogies on special vocabulary lists, developed for each grade and difficulty level by experienced teachers, which participants are encouraged to study before each meet.
Excellence in the competition will require both a mastery of the meanings of the vocabulary words (of a difficulty appropriate to each grade level) and thoughtful reasoning about the relationships between these words and more familiar language used in the competition's analogies.
2017-2018 Schedule
Challenge Meet #1 Word Lists Available Online10/1/17
Challenge Meet #1 Tests Available Online11/10/17
Challenge Meet #1 Tests Administered 11/13/17 - 12/1/17
Challenge Meet #1 Score Reporting Deadline12/08/17
Challenge Meet #1 Results Available 12/22/17
Challenge Meet #2 Word Lists Available Online 12/4/17
Challenge Meet #2 Tests Available Online2/2/18
Challenge Meet #2 Tests Administered 2/5/18 - 2/23/18
Challenge Meet #2 Score Reporting Deadline 3/2/18
Challenge Meet #2 Results Available 3/16/18
Challenge Meet #3 Word Lists Available Online 2/26/18
Challenge Meet #3 Tests Available Online4/6/18
Challenge Meet #3 Tests Administered 4/9/18 - 4/27/18
Challenge Meet #3 Score Reporting Deadline5/4/18
Challenge Meet #3 Results Available 5/11/18
Cumulative Champions Announced 5/11/18
THE FIRST WORD LISTS ARE RIGHT HERE!
General Analogy Practice:
Analogy Jeopardy: http://www.quia.com/cb/148767.html
Choices: http://www.quia.com/pop/14975.html
Hangman: http://www.quia.com/hm/242970.html
Speedy: http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/analogies/analogiesx.htm
Word Relationships: http://www.quia.com/quiz/748000.html?AP_rand=1225189222
Laura Thompson, TAG Specialist, Rush Creek Elementary
Email: thompsonlaura@district279.org
Phone: 763-494-4549 83131