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.
It 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.
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 helped my son who has Auditory processing disorder (APD) 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. In his words “It gave me repeated practice at hearing the individual sounds and then what they sounded like in the word and that helped me with my spelling, writing and reading.” 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, and students get great satisfaction from freeing the characters from the chains. 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.
