September WordMasters News! Challenge Schedule. New Archive Function in Dashboard. What Works in Your Classroom?

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1 September Newsletter: Stick Around App, Study Tools, Registration and Challenge Schedule. September 2015 In This Issue WordMasters News! Sweet Tweets Our Most Popular Study Tool Registration is Still Open for WordMasters Challenge Challenge Schedule New Archive Function in Dashboard What Works in Your Classroom? WordMasters News! Welcome back for the 29th annual WordMasters Challenge! It's almost time to get started -- Meet #1 word lists will be posted on our website and available for download on October 1st. If you've already enrolled your teams, click here to read through our updated Team Leader Guide. This should answer almost any question you may have about how to administer a team and navigate our website. If you haven't enrolled yet, it's not too late! Just click here to Enroll Online or here to download an Order Form to fax or to us. Please note our new address: WordMasters, LLC Challenge Schedule Upcoming important dates: October 1 - Meet #1 Word Lists posted Click for the calendar. New Archive Function in Dashboard Remove students and Team Leaders from your dropdown lists. See Team Leader Guide for details on how to use the ARCHIVE function. What Works in Your Classroom? Share your successful teaching tips, 1 of 5 9/18/15, 8:13 AM

2 5026 Washington Blvd. Indianapolis, IN Our contact numbers are still the same: (phone) and (fax). Please update your system records (including your purchase order database). Thank you! Sweet Tweets photos, or videos. us at and we'll add it to the Idea Gallery. Keep Up With Us Facebook Twitter Follow us on Twitter! Challenge yourself with The Analogy of The Day Share WordMasters tips And more... Team Leader Karen Mensing from Phoenix, AZ took to Twitter to share how her class studied for Meet #3: My class prepared for the #WordMastersChallenge by learning the vocabulary Click the link above for more information about Stick Around, an educational app by Tony Vincent and MorrisCooke and read Karen's blog about using the app in her classroom. Another Team Leader shared a program review to encourage other teachers to use WordMasters. See my review of WordMasters Challenge to see if this #vocabulary competition fits your class! creativeteachersclassroom.com #teachingenglish #edchat 2 of 5 9/18/15, 8:13 AM

3 Our Most Popular Study Tool Looking for ways to help your students learn their word lists for each meet? The most downloaded WordMasters Study Tool is the essential: Word Map We also have many other Study Tools to add fun to learning Word Lists for each meet: Most Wanted Poster Vocabulary Parade (or Fashion Show) Hidden Picture Grid Game Frequent Finder Punch Card Scavenger Hunt Bingo Think Fast! Art Show Analogy Practice All Study Tools are on our website under Teacher Tools. Do you have a tool to share? us! Registration is Still Open for WordMasters Challenge Visit our website, and click on the yellow Enroll Now button on the right-side of the screen. Enrollment fee is still only $95 per team, with volume discounts for schools enrolling 5 or more teams or school districts registering 5 or more schools. You can pay using a credit card online, or we can invoice you. 3 of 5 9/18/15, 8:13 AM

4 What's new at WordMasters Click the link to download a purchase order. We ask that you still complete the online enrollment form and select the Bill Me Later option to ensure we have accurate and complete contact information. We will invoice you once we receive your purchase order. It s that easy! Challenge Schedule Enrollment Deadline: September 30th WordMasters Challenge Meet #1 Oct. 1st Nov. 16th - Dec. 4th Score Reporting Deadline Dec. 11th Dec. 28th Meet #2 Dec. 7th Feb. 1st - Feb. 19th Score Reporting Deadline Feb. 26th 4 of 5 March 11th 9/18/15, 8:13 AM

5 Meet #3 Feb. 22nd April 4th-April 22nd Score Reporting Deadline April 29th May 13th Cumulative Champions Announced May 13th To find the entire WordMasters Challenge Calendar click here or the Challenge Schedule can be found under the Resources tab on the WordMasters Challenge website. Copyright 2014 WordMasters, LLC, All rights reserved. unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences 5 of 5 9/18/15, 8:13 AM