Wordchain Explainer Videos
Wordchain Game

Wordchain is a complete digital resource that independently, systematically and progressively builds all skills involved in decoding and spelling words, from the simplest words to the most complex, from cat to catalogue, or from sat to saturation.

Wordchain trains users to listen to the individual sounds in a word and match these to letters or letter clusters.
It develops the ability to distinguish between similar sounds, such as p and b, or sh and ch.
It demonstrates how good spellers hold sounds in their head, as reason rather than reasin.
It teaches how to efficiently and effortlessly blend sounds in longer words, and trains users to hold these words in memory as competent readers do.
It does all this in a New Zealand accent.
It provides countless hours of practice, at school, at home, or both.
Wordchain 1 Explained
Wordchain 2,3 and 4 Explained
How to Explain Wordchain to Children

Love, love, love Wordchain… first programme I have found in years that caters/supports a variety of learners with differentiation, self-paced, exciting, instant, and builds consecutively on skills
Wordchain is a real winner in my book. It really helps… to hear each sound correctly (and in a NZ accent) and be able to then identify the graphemes and blend the words back together again. I am also an RTLB and I recommend Wordchain as it’s a great way to provide multiple repetitions of segmenting and blending sounds in a supported way. The skills consecutively build on each other. I also find that it helps parents support their children at home as they often feel overwhelmed by all the spelling patterns – Wordchain does this all for them! I highly recommend it.
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Amie Roberts was 2023 Apple Teacher of the Year (NZ), awarded for her outstanding work in structured literacy. She also received a Teacher Mentor special award.

Recommended
by teachers across
New Zealand
by teachers across
New Zealand

Wordchain is a real winner in my book. It really helps… to hear each sound correctly (and in a NZ accent) and be able to then identify the graphemes and blend the words back together again. I am also an RTLB and I recommend Wordchain as it’s a great way to provide multiple repetitions of segmenting and blending sounds in a supported way. The skills consecutively build on each other. I also find that it helps parents support their children at home as they often feel overwhelmed by all the spelling patterns – Wordchain does this all for them! I highly recommend it.
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Amie Roberts was 2023 Apple Teacher of the Year (NZ), awarded for her outstanding work in structured literacy. She also received a Teacher Mentor special award.
Love, love, love Wordchain… first programme I have found in years that caters/supports a variety of learners with differentiation, self-paced, exciting, instant, and builds consecutively on skills




