The WordMasters Challenge™ is offered in two divisions at each grade level (grades 3-8). The Blue Division is suitable for students of average to above-average reading and reasoning abilities. The Gold Division is for students who have clearly superior language skills (such as those in Gifted and Talented programs).
Within each division, there are three 20-minute analogy-solving meets per year – held at your school during December, February and April. Several weeks before each meet, you can download a Word List containing 25 words that will be featured in the upcoming WordMasters Challenge™.
All of your students may participate in the WordMasters Challenge™, but only the scores of your top ten students are used to calculate the team score (maximum score per team is 200 points).
After each meet, your Team Leader will report the team's results by logging into our website and submitting your students' scores. We will analyze the results and post a report detailing the median team scores and other statistics related to the competition, and announce the names of the highest-scoring schools and individuals nationwide. These statistics enable you to assess your own students’ achievement, and can also help you set realistic goals for the following meets. We also send press releases to schools that have excelled in each meet and/or had a student achieve a perfect score.
After all three meets have been completed, we publish cumulative statistics and recognize about 100 of the most outstanding schools and about 200 individual students.
At the end of the competition year, we will send you ten lithographed certificates of achievement and one Champion Medal that you can award to your top achievers. If you want to present more than ten certificates or more than one medal, you may purchase additional items in our online Store.
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The WordMasters Challenge™ is a vocabulary-based competition that focuses on completing analogies. Over the course of the competition, students will develop verbal reasoning abilities and higher-order thinking skills, improve logic and reading comprehension, and acquire a life-long love for learning!
Prepare your students for the WordMasters Challenge™ with Analogies 101! Each of our eleven sets contains thirty analogies that introduce students to various forms of analogical reasoning. Using basic vocabulary to illustrate different analogy formats, each Analogies 101 set is suitable for use by all grade levels!
Need additional certificates or medals? Looking to reward your WordMasters throughout the school year?WordMasters Challenge™ merchandise is perfect for motivating or rewarding your students as they are improving their vocabulary.
