A team representing Charles Wright Academy achieved highest honors in the recent WordMasters Challenge—a national vocabulary competition involving nearly 150,000 students annually. The third grade team scored an impressive 183 points out of a possible 200 in the second of three meets this year, placing fourth in the nation. In addition, the eighth grade team also scored 183 points and finished in tenth place in its division.
Competing in the difficult Blue Division of the WordMasters Challenge, Charlie ’25 and Olivia ’25 each earned a perfect score of 20. Nationally, only 23 third graders achieved this result. Other students from Charles Wright Academy who achieved outstanding results in the meet include Tessa ’25 and Isabella ’23.
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 their new vocabulary to complete analogies expressing various kinds of logical relationships. Working to solve the analogies helps students learn to think both analytically and metaphorically. Although most vocabulary enrichment and analogy-solving programs are designed for use by high school students, WordMasters Challenge materials have been specifically created for younger students in grades three through eight. They are particularly well suited for children who are motivated by the challenge of learning new words and enjoy the logical puzzles posed by analogies.
The WordMasters Challenge program is administered by a company based in Indianapolis, Indiana, which is dedicated to inspiring high achievement in American schools. Further information is available at the company’s website.
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