Kamleen Sam

IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy #6

WordWorld is a fun website for kindergarten. You can visit this website at (https://www.wordworld.com/about/word-world#awards). It is a site for pre-reading concept letters make words and words have real meaning and power. WordWorld is a literacy concept such as sounding letters, “chunking words”, and rhyming.

WordWorld is for preschool students which they have series where words are truly the stars of the show! Taking the adventure, students can romp into a colorful, vibrant world of words and meet WordFriends. WordFriends are animals whose bodies are made up of the letters that spell the word they are.

This site wins many awards; they won interactive award in 2007. They also received Toy wishes magazine All-star-award, Creative toys award, Parents choice award: Gold, Outstanding achievement in main title in 2008. They again won an award for outstanding children’s animated program and Writing in animation in 2009.

            WordWorld has a curriculum which is designed to introduce, support literacy skills for children ages 3 -5 years old. The curriculum contains 4 skill sets for younger children’s emergent literacy; print awareness, letter knowledge, comprehension, vocabulary and socio-emotional skills.

This site has free activities too. They have games to play, puzzle to solve, and activities for groups. They also have some resources for teachers and parents to use with their kids for fun learning. Videos are available for free streaming for everyone.

            WordWorld has a shopping site for viewers to see. They sell lunch box, bag packs, towel, books, posters and many more. Prizes are available where everyone can shop online using visa card, master card, or PayPal. You can visit the site at any time.