Students who lack proficient decoding skills struggle to ever achieve fluency and comprehension. Using varied activities, WordMaker provides a systematic and interactive approach to teaching word attack and spelling skills. Created in collaboration with Dr. Patricia Cunningham, author of the Four-Blocks Literacy Model, WordMaker enhances her proven Systematic Sequential Phonics They Use through technology to provide individualized instruction and extended practice for students who struggle or need computer access.
Complement and Extend Your Phonics Instruction
Students increase decoding skills by manipulating letters, onsets and rimes to learn new patterns in meaningful contexts
Phonetically irregular, or sight words, are words captured through word walls
Built-in data collection drives formative assessment and decisions about instruction and intervention
Transfer Activities teach learners to apply new knowledge to unknown words