Here are some Teacher Tools to assist you throughout this year's WordMasters Challenge™:
- WordMasters Challenge™ Welcome Kit (The PDF file includes a welcome letter, the WordMasters Basics Ten-Step Checklist, a parent letter and student sign-up sheet)
If you would like to customize the parent letter or student sign-up sheet for your school, you are welcome to edit the following Word documents:
- Parent Letter (Word document)
- Student Sign-Up Sheet (Word document)
For schools making a presentation about WordMasters™, download this PowerPoint presentation which follows along with the Welcome Kit's Ten-Step Checklist:
- WordMasters™ Basics (PowerPoint)
- WordMasters™ Basics (PDF Version)
To celebrate your team's success in a meet (or the success of an individual student), download and edit the following Word document by customizing the text you find in [brackets]. Then it is ready to be sent to your local media:
- WordMasters™ Press Release Template (Word document)
To help you print team certificates, use this Word document:
- WordMasters™ Certificate Template (Word document)
Hint: Print a practice certificate on blank paper to make sure your school name fits and the margins are okay before printing on the actual certificates.
WordMasters Challenge
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!
Analogies 101
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!
WMC Merchandise
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.