- By Cathy Moseley
- Around Town
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A student representing Lansing Middle School recently received a perfect score in the last of three meets for this year's WordMasters Challenge™—a national vocabulary competition involving nearly 150,000 students annually.
Competing in the difficult Blue Division of the WordMasters Challenge™, eighth grader Fiona Lory-Moran earned a perfect score of 20 in the recent meet. Nationally, only 7 eighth graders achieved a perfect score. Other students at Lansing Middle School who achieved outstanding results in the final meet include seventh grader Hana Thibault.
The students at Lansing Middle School were coached in preparation for the WordMasters Challenge™ by Cathy Moseley.
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. Congratulations to all of the WordMasters at Lansing Middle School!