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January Newsletter: Meet #1 Results, Visuwords, a new study tool "Frequent Finder Punch Card" and Marie's Words January 2014 In This Issue WordMasters News! Visuwords Idea Gallery: Frequent Finder Punch Card Marie's Words Calendar Reminders WordMasters News! Happy New Year! If you haven t already checked, the Meet #1 results are available at our website. Click on the RESULTS tab and choose Meet #1 Results (or click here) for a review of the first Challenge Test, tables with the top ten teams in each division, and listings of all participants who earned a perfect score of 20. You can also access the reports by logging into your Dashboard and selecting View Reports. Be sure to select Meet #1 before choosing a report to view. You can pull up details on the scores submitted for your own teams by selecting My Teams and Students. What Works in Your Classroom? Share your successful teaching tips, photos, or videos. E-mail us at lisa.kennedy@wordmasterschallenge.com and we'll add it to the Idea Gallery. Keep Up With Us Facebook Twitter 1 of 6 5/5/14, 12:06 PM

Congratulations to all our top finishers, as well as to all the participants who achieved a personal best! If your team placed in the top ten nationally and/or your team had one or more students who earned a perfect score on the first meet, you can expect to receive a Press Release in DRAFT form by the end of next week. The press release is emailed to you as a Word document that can be easily modified to fit your needs. If your team did not place nationally and you did not have any students with perfect scores, you can still use our Press Release Template (click here or find it the "Teacher Tools" section under the RESOURCES tab) as a basis for your own article. Remember, we'd love to see a copy of anything you publish celebrating your WordMasters champs! While you are logged into your Dashboard, be sure to download the Meet #2 words if you haven t done so already. Just click on Download Materials and you will see the link for the Meet #2 word lists. Note the dates for the Meet #2 Challenge and score submission deadline below. While we understand that many schools have a break scheduled during February, the Challenge Schedule is designed to give you the flexibility to administer the Challenge to your teams either before or after your winter break. Please plan accordingly, as we must stringently enforce the February 28 th score reporting deadline in order to get Meet #3 completed before the school year ends (remember, many of our schools get out before Memorial Day). This past November, Julie and I had the opportunity to meet many of 2 of 6 5/5/14, 12:06 PM

our Team Leaders at the NAGC (National Association for Gifted Children) conference in our hometown of Indianapolis. Below you will see some of the ideas and resources we learned about from our customers. We are planning to exhibit again at the November 2014 NAGC conference in Baltimore hope to meet many more of you there! Visuwords A WordMasters Team Leader shared with us a website her students use to learn and understand their word lists for each meet. Visuwords is an online graphical dictionary that uses a visualization tool to display word definitions and diagram how words are related. For example, if you enter gregarious, you'll see: Do you have a great online resource to share? E-mail us. Idea Gallery: Frequent Finder Punch Card To encourage students to find their WordMasters 3 of 6 5/5/14, 12:06 PM

word list in everyday use, Bonnie O'Reagan created a punch card for her class. Each student is given a card that says "W O R D M A S T E R S", and earns a punch each time they find one of their WordMasters words in print or used on air. When the card is full (11 words), it can be redeemed for a prize. Bonnie said many of her students were so proud of their completed card(s) that they opted to keep them instead of cashing in! If you'd like to use the "Frequent Finder Punch Card" Study Tool, click here or find it on the Teacher Tools page under the RESOURCES tab with the Study Tools for Teams. If you have a fun idea to share, send us an e-mail. Marie's Words While exhibiting at a conference this fall, we met the family behind the vocabulary flashcard product, Marie's Words. Marie was applying to colleges and wanted to improve her SAT scores. Being a visual learner, she was struggling to memorize vocabulary words. So she created her own version of flashcards which allowed her to "picture words--in a flash! ", and the idea was born. Together, she and her brother have created 550 flashcards for words typically found on standardized tests---and on WordMasters 4 of 6 5/5/14, 12:06 PM

Challenge Tests. Here is an example: To learn more about Marie's Words and how they are can make learning vocabulary fun and effective, or to order a box of cards, please visit their website. Calendar Reminders Meet #2 Important Dates WordMasters Challenge Meet #2 Word Lists Available Dec. 9th Test Administered Feb. 3rd-Feb. 21st Score Reporting Deadline Feb. 28th Results Available March 14th To find the entire 2013-14 WordMasters Challenge Calendar, click here to go to the Challenge Schedule under the RESOURCES tab on the WordMasters Challenge website. 5 of 6 5/5/14, 12:06 PM