Jackson Student Earns Perfect Score in National WordMasters Challenge
February 4, 2010
Jules Medina, fourth grade student at Jackson Elementary School, earned a perfect score in the year's first WordMasters Challenge meet held in December. WordMasters is a national language arts competition entered by approximately 215,000 students annually, which consists of three separate meets held at intervals throughout the year. Jules is one of only 39 fourth graders in the country to achieve perfect results.
Competing in the difficult Blue Division of the Challenge, Jules earned a perfect score. Other students at the school who also earned outstanding results in the meet included third graders Mark Weisberg, Jonathan Lu and Simran Nijjar, as well as fourth grader Maximillian Fernandez. The school's students were coached in preparation for the challenge by Betty Fancher, PACE (Plano Academic and Creative Education) specialist at Jackson.
The WordMasters Challenge is an exercize in critical thinking that first encourages students to become familiar with a set of interesting new words 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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