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 Mount
de Chantal Visitation Academy’s Courtney Rouse has been
recognized for taking first place in the state of West Virginia
for the fourth grade in the 2005-06 Reader’s Digest Word Power
Challenge. In what is becoming a tradition for Mount students,
Courtney joins Minerva Byers who was the West Virginia state
champion in 05-06 for grades five through eight and Sara Fowler
who was the state champion in 04-05. The Reader's Digest
National Word Power Challenge is a vocabulary contest designed
for schools nationwide with any or all of grades four through
eight. Reader's Digest provides the questions and answers for
the contest at all levels. Questions address the subject of
vocabulary in a variety of question formats. Some questions
require a straight definition; others require knowledge of a
word's antonym or its proper use in a sentence. Students may be
asked questions about words derived from other languages and
words categorized by different themes or topics. There are four
levels of competition: classroom, grade, state and national. At
the classroom level, there is a minimum requirement of six
students from each of the participating, eligible grades.
Classroom winners from each grade compete to determine a grade
level winner. To compete for advancement from grade to state
level, each grade level winner must take the written Qualifying
Test. Only students in the sixth, seventh, and eighth grades are
eligible to advance to the state level contest. Up to one
hundred of the highest-scoring eligible students in a state or
territory advance to the state level. The first-place winner
from each state contest advances to the national level. |
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