Ogden Elementary student earns perfect score in vocabulary competition
NEW HANOVER COUNTY, NC (WWAY) — One New Hanover County student has more to celebrate this summer than just completing 5th grade!
Jamie McKinney earned a perfect score in the WordMasters Challenge, a nationwide vocabulary and analogy competition.
The WordMasters Challenge is an exercise in critical thinking that encourages students to become familiar with a set of interesting new words that are considerably harder than grade level, and challenges them to use those words to complete analogies expressing various kinds of logical relationships. Working to solve the analogies helps students learn to think both analytically and metaphorically.
There are 3 WordMasters Challenge Meets per year. Each consists of analogies based on the word lists. The meets are cumulative. Students have some class time to prepare for the meets, but also study outside of school.
McKinney’s 5th grade teacher, Jenny Leed, said some strategies for working with the words include defining and classifying them. Leed said as a teacher, WordMasters is a fun way to incorporate advanced level vocabulary with the added challenge of analogies.
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