Haverford Elementary Students Earn Top Honors At National Vocabulary Competition​

A group of School District of Haverford Township fifth grade students shined at a national vocabulary competition recently, earning nearly a perfect score and landing them in first place among thousands of other students from across the country.

According to the district, the fifth grade team scored an 196 points out of a possible 200 in the first of three WordMasters Challenge meets this year, placing first in the nation.

Competing in the difficult Blue Division of the challenge, fourth grader Jude Lozano and fifth graders Luci Bannister, Sean Brennan, Lauren Donnelly, Brian Heckler, Selah Koleth and Sophia Urso each earned a perfect score of 20 on the challenge, the district said.

Other students from Manoa Elementary School who achieved outstanding results in the meet include third graders Kimmy Perthes and Nathan Rivers, and fifth graders Sanatra Kao, Jack Kelley, Connor Knorr, Stephen O’Donnell and Monica Rivera, according to the district.

Language arts teachers and Sandi Turek coached the standout students in preparation for the WordMasters Challenge, the district said.

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, the district said.

Congrats to all the Manoa Elementary students who out shined the thousands of others at the competition!

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