Word Builder - The Phonics Teaching Tool for Android

11 things about Word Builder - The Phonics Teaching Tool

1. Word Builder™ gives students an easy way to experiment with making and reading words using the most common letter-sound patterns in English.

2. WordBuilder™ helps you to teach students 'code-cracking' skills found through research to be vital in learning to read and write in English.

3. Bartek Rajkowski, PhD, Word Builder™ is a scientifically based, fun, intuitive means through which to learn how to use letter-sound patterns to crack the code in the English language.

4. Research shows that we read unfamiliar words by converting letter patterns to speech sounds and then mentally joining the sounds to read the word.

5. The app is perfect for teaching beginning readers, students with reading difficulties and students learning English as a second language.

6. "Word Builder is the best program I have seen that enables students to play with sounds and hear the word it makes.

7. The scaffolding built into the program means students can be working at a task appropriate to their level of learning with very little assistance.

8. They can manipulate the sounds within a word, make rhyming words, play with nonsense words and be told whether it is a real word or not.

9. Competent readers self-teach by successfully decoding new words, while poor letter-sound knowledge and decoding ability are hallmarks of reading difficulties.

10. - Wordbuilder™ is best used in parallel with a synthetic phonics program such as Jolly Phonics, MULTILIT or Letters & Sounds.

11. This code-cracking skill has been shown through decades of research to be crucial in learning to read and spell.