Using Word Builder™ to help students understand how to read and spell words is easy once you understand how the app works and why it targets certain important skills! Please take a few minutes to read this quick tutorial which will give you an overview of the purpose of the app as well as its powerful features.
Word Builder™ is designed to help you teach skills shown through decades of research to be crucial in learning to read and spell. It provides students with a fun, intuitive and powerful tool with which to learn about the English language through synthetic phonics. Broadly speaking, Word Builder™ helps you to teach students the following important literacy skills, which we highly recommend you read about before starting to use the app (click the blue text to learn more):
Graphemic Knowledge (remembering letter-sound relationships)
Segmentation (breaking words up into individual speech sounds)
Blending (joining speech sounds together to make words)
Decoding and Encoding (reading and spelling words using letter-sound relationships)
Reading and Spelling Sight Words (tricky words such as 'you' and 'said' that have unusual letter-sound relationships)
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