 
THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT IS All of that hard work using dictionaries, learning new and challenging vocabulary words, and of course, learning how to use them properly is at the heart of the new ATB Vocabulary Acquisition Program at the Big Apple Academy. And MOST IMPORTANTLY, it has proven to be successful! Our English Language Arts learners are scoring high points nationally, CONGRATULATIONS to all of our winners on the WORDMASTERS CHALLENGE MEET1 !
|
||
|
WORDMASTERS CHALLENGE MEET # 1 TOP SCORERS
|
||
|
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE A team representing Big Apple Academy achieved Highest Honors in the recent WordMasters Challenge™—a national vocabulary competition involving nearly 150,000 students annually. The sixth grade team scored an impressive 183points out of a possible 200 in the first of three meets this year, placing ninth in the nation. Competing in the difficult Blue Division of the WordMasters Challenge™, sixth grader Ben Raykhman and eighth grader Joshua Spektor each earned a perfect score of 20 on the challenge. Nationally, only 31 sixth graders and 40 eighth graders achieved this result. Other students from Big Apple Academy who achieved outstanding results in the meet include fifth grader Paul Smolensky, sixth graders Eli Gersh and Steven Polishchuk, seventh graders Olivia Raykham, Svetlana Doronkin and Leeza Pantano, and eighth grader Max Blyakherov. The students were coached in preparation for the WordMasters Challenge™ by Dina Kuzminer, Gennadiy Rozhdestvenskiy, Angela Greene, and Vlada Goldfarb 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 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. 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: http://www.wordmasterschallenge.com. |
