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Thursday, January 13, 2011

7th WordMasters-Second Place in the Nation!

Ames Middle School  7th grade students recently earned top honors in the WordMasters Challenge, a national language arts competition. The students finished second in the nation!  Over 27,000 students from nearly 300 schools participated in this first of three exams.

All teams study the WordMaster words, learning parts of speech and the definitions. Students then work at comparing and contrasting the words to prepare for the analogy based exam. The test requires  that students apply their understanding of the words to an analogy-based test that requires them to think metaphorically and analytically. The top ten school scores become our team score for the test. AMS earned second place for the team score on the first exam.

Seven AMS students were among only 120 nationwide who earned perfect scores. Congratulations to seventh grade participants! The second session of WordMasters begins later this month.