Wordchain

Think of Wordchain as structured literacy in digital format, independently building all word identification and spelling skills.

Each level builds phonological awareness, phoneme identification and phonics knowledge, and the ability to detect the difference between similar, easily confused sounds, such as p and b or ch and sh. The new fluent blending section builds awareness of repeating units and how to blend them effortlessly. And orthographic mapping, how words are remembered. That is built into Wordchain too.

The five levels build these skills systematically and sequentially. Level 1 begins with basic cvc words; level 5 introduces multisyllabic words, complex suffixes, and Greek and Latin spelling patterns. One licence gives students access to all levels.

To quote Anita Archer, ‘learning is not a spectator sport’. Learning to match phonemes to graphemes, speech sounds to their representation in phonics, and locking this into a student’s brain, is achieved by doing, not telling. It involves building links in the brain, and this requires the student to be thinking, the act of thinking building the pathways. It takes practice, practice and more practice, most especially for those students who find grasping this difficult. Wordchain delivers the many hours of practice in thinking in the sounds in words, building a reading brain.

We are not born with a reading brain. It is created. That is the function of Wordchain.

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