WordMasters

This year Harriet Bishop is again participating in the WordMasters Challenge. This is a national competition for students in grades 3-8 that focuses on vocabulary and verbal reasoning through the use of analogies. WordMasters fosters higher-level comprehension skills as students develop stronger analytical and metaphorical thinking. The WordMasters Challenge consists of three 20-minute analogy-solving meets held at school throughout the year (November, February and April). Prior to each meet, the students are given a list of 25 challenging vocabulary words that will appear in the Challenge Test analogies. Excellence in the competition will require both a mastery of the word meanings and thoughtful reasoning about the relationships between the words.

Listed below are some websites that can help students practice analogies and their vocabulary words. Many of the sites have advertisements. Parental guidance is recommended.