Saint James Student Scores Highest Honors in National WordMasters Challenge
A student representing Saint James School recently won
highest honors in this year’s WordMasters Challenge-a national language arts competition entered by over 220,000 students annually, which consists of three separatemeets held at intervals during the school year.
Competing in the difficult Blue Division of the Challenge, eighth grader Sarah Hough earned a perfect score in
this year’s first meet, held in December.
This is the third year that Sarah has distinguished herself by achieving a perfect score. In the entire country
only 51 other 8th grade students achieved perfect results. Others students at the school who achieved
outstanding results in the meet included sixth grader Emmett McNamara, and seventh graders Catherine Escueta, Lauren Cleary, and Bella Murrer. The
school’s students were coached in preparation for the Challenge by Elizabeth Powell.
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We salute all of our students on their special achievement!
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 words to complete analogies expressing various kinds of
logical relationships. Working to solve 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 grade 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.
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The WordMasters Challenge has been administered for the past 25 years by a company based in Allendale, New Jersey, which is dedicated to inspiring high achievement in American schools. The students will participate in two more meets in the coming months, and medals and certificates will be awarded in June to those who achieve and/or
improve the most in the course of the year.
