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Frank C. Whiteley Student Wins “WordMasters Challenge”
A student representing Frank C. Whiteley School recently won highest honors in this year’s WordMasters Challenge—a national language arts competition entered by more than 250,000 students annually, which consists of three separate meets held at intervals during the school year.
Competing in the difficult Blue Division of the Challenge, fourth grader Elise Dirkes-Jacks was one of only 139 fourth graders in the nation to earn a perfect score in the year’s first meet, held in December. Other students at the school who also achieved outstanding results in the meet were fourth graders Dustin Anderson and Sarah Kuhl. The students were coached in preparation for the competition by teacher Jane Riley.
The WordMasters Challenge is an exercise in critical thinking which 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. Working to solve the Challenge analogies helps students learn to think both analytically and metaphorically.
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