LinguiSHTIK

LinguiSHTIK

LINGUISHTIK challenges players to improve their grammar, vocabulary, spelling, and writing skills. Players learn to compose better sentences with proper grammar application. They also use richer vocabulary as they compete against others and are rewarded.

All grade levels play with the same set of procedural rules. However, each division level of competition introduces increasingly more difficult grammatical concepts for the players to use. Competitors are challenged to enhance their vocabulary and grammar skills in increasingly creative ways. Players usually learn more from applying their knowledge in the competition than they do in their normal classroom studies.

Elementary Division (grades 4-6) players concentrate on the six basic parts of speech (noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection). They compose sentences ranging from Subject-Verb to Subject-Verb-Indirect Object-Direct Object. They learn to use a host of different functions, such as collective nouns, linking verbs, verbs of different tense. They also learn to incorporate different kinds of phrases and clauses in their sentences.

Middle Division (grades 7-8) players continue to use everything that is available to the Elementary Division. They also add on the ability to add on more complex sentences, such as objective complements, imperatives, and exclamatory sentences. The range of functions they may choose is also expanded to include, for instance, indefinite or relative pronouns, infinitives and participles and gerunds, transitive and intransitive verbs, and many other grammatical ideas.

Junior and Senior Division (grades 9-12) players have all that is available from the lower levels and also may incorporate additional strategies as they construct their sentences. Cases and tenses and complex clauses and phrases become strategies that lead to victories.