Wordshark is a major teaching resource used widely in schools.
It combines the excitement of computer games with the serious task of learning to read and spell. It offers over 55 games which use sound, graphics and text to teach and reinforce word recognition and spelling.
The program includes phonics, onset and rime, homophones, spelling rules, common letter patterns, visual and auditory patterns, prefixes, suffixes, roots, word division, high frequency words, use of words in context, alphabet and dictionary skills and more.
The games and the selection of words have been specially targeted to assist those with specific learning difficulties (dyslexia), but are equally good for all learners.
The variety of games, concepts and words make Wordshark suitable for use in both primary and secondary schools as well as at home.
NEW in Wordshark 4, February 2008:
“Letters and Sounds” detailed phonics course supporting the English Government initiative. ALSO:
Many new games - Sassoon Font - More Reward Games - Extra teacher/admin functions including the ability for several staff to set different work for an individual child or group
Network version now compatible with Apple Mac.
System Requirements
PC with 300Mhz or faster processor and a sound system (2Ghz for Vista)
128MB RAM or higher is recommended (At least 1Gb for Vista)
Windows 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP Home or Professional (Inc. Service Pack 2), Vista (all flavours)
500MB of hard disc space. CD or DVD drive 800x600 Graphics or better
Note: Network version requires a CD drive for installation only.
The single-user version CD must be in the local CD drive whilst the program is running
From release 3.05, our single-user versions work on standalone Apple Macintosh computers running OS X version 10.3 “ Panther” to 10.4. Release 4.03 is required for OS X 10.5 “Leopard”.
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