The Talking Words Factory teaches vowel and consonant concepts, word building, rhyming and vocabulary.
Develop fundamental pre-reading skills with this interactive video that encourages children to participate in the action!
The Sticky-ick-o-Rama machine teaches that vowels are the glue that make words stick together.
The Word Whammer machine shows how phonetic sounds blend together to make words.
Visit the Sound Slide, where two letters blend together to make a new sound!
WORD BUILDING AND WHY IT'S IMPORTANT!
On the road to reading, children must learn the relationship between
sounds and their spellings. First, they learn that each alphabet
letter represents a sound. Next, they begin to understand that a
word is made up of individual sounds and that a word can be "sounded
out!To read, we blend sounds together. To spell, we break down words
into their sounds. Giving your child the opportunity to bear how
sounds are put together to make words prepares him or her to decode
(sound out or blend) words independently.
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Use rhymes and word families to make new words with different beginning sounds!
Sing along with fun songs that review key educational concepts.
Make four-letter words by adding blended beginning and ending sounds!
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This interactive video teaches essential pre-reading skills using engaging and proven educational techniques.
Sound Blending
Before they can read fluently, children must understand how phonetic sounds blend together to make words.
This interactive video is an engaging way to learn that words are made up of beginning, middle and ending sounds, and that beginning sounds can be replaced to make rhyming words.
Repetition
Repetition helps kids master concepts.Participation
Games encourage participation and let kids practice making words.
Watch a full-length animated video that teaches how letter sounds make words.
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Play interactive games that reinforce key concepts.
THE TALKING WORDS FACTORY STORY!
Tad needs to write an essay telling why his dad is the best in the world, but he doesn't know how to make words. Leap decides it's time for Tad to visit the Talking Words Factory. Here, Professor Quigley teaches Tad to put letters together to make words.WHAT'S BEING TAUGHT:
Sound Blending: Before they can read fluently, children must understand that words are made of sounds and how individual letter sounds blend together to make words.
Rhyming: Professor Quigley's machines illustrate how beginning sounds can be replaced to make words that rhyme.
WORD BAMMER AND WORD WHAMMER GAMES
HOW TO PLAY:
Help Professor Quigley make words for the Talking Words Dictionary! In the Word Bammer and Word Whammer games, a word ending is given and players choose beginning sounds to make words. Letters or letter blends speed by on a conveyor and players touch a letter or letter blend with their pen to complete the word.
In the Word Barnmer game (Free Click), players make as many words as they can in the time given.
In the Word Whammer game (Make the Word), Professor Quigley asks players to make specific words and players must choose the correct beginning sound to complete the word.WHAT'S BEING TAUGHT:
Beginning Sounds: Understanding that beginning sounds can be added to ending sounds to form words.
Word Building: Through practice, understanding how individual letter sounds blend together to make words.
Control the action using the Leapster directional pad and buttons.
Lightweight Sports Fit Headphones, ideal for use with the Leapster.