VOCABULARY
AND ANALOGIES FOR ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOLS:
The
WordMasters Challenge is a national competition for students in
grades 3-8 which encourages growth in vocabulary and verbal
reasoning. Over 4,200 school teams, from 50 states, participated last year.
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Unlike other
language-arts contests, which emphasize grammar and punctuation, this competition addresses
higher-level word-comprehension and logical abilities and helps
students learn to think both analytically and metaphorically.
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The competition does this in two
ways:
1) It
challenges students to solve analogies based on relationships among words they have
learned, and
2) It
draws these analogies from special vocabulary lists, which students have two weeks to
study before each meet.
