Construct the Seven Buildings of the Word World and Improve Reading, Spelling and Speaking Skills...
Word Construction Set [WIN]
$37.99

Many children and English as a Second Language students find it difficult to learn to read, to spell and to speak English words. Many children with special learning needs, especially those with dyslexia, also find it difficult to visualize the letters and sounds of words, and to spell words. This educational software, Word Construction Set, is aimed to help in all these areas.

Parents and teachers will find much depth in this software. There are over 3000 exercises and 1000s of combinations of phonics to explore in the Phonics Tool Shop and in the Phonics Construction Site.

Teachers will find this program very useful in planning stimulating lessons, in forming phonics ideas and in ESL phonics work. There are many special areas in the program which focus on helping the dyslexic student understand letter order.

While many phonics programs concentrate on beginning letter consonantal sounds, Word Construction Set includes the whole range of phonic groups: vowels, word endings, apostrophes and possessives, homophones, prefixes and Greek and Latin root sounds and meanings to choose from in the Seven Buildings of the Word World. This means that this program will help children, at all learning levels, learn a wider vocabulary, and reinforce their understanding of phonics in spelling difficult words.

Even older students find this program useful in developing their literacy.

FEATURING complete interactivity of phonics sounded speech, and letter shapes, which enable the student:

  • to hear any phonic letter group,
  • to create words from phonic parts and hear the result,
  • to experiment with made-up words in a sentence,
  • to spell difficult words,
  • to say words correctly,
  • to record and track progress.
  • to enjoy the animated construction of colorful word buildings using phonics.

Consonant Condos

Construct 470 words using:

  • Beginning consonants
  • Ending consonants
  • Blends: initial and final
  • Silent and mixed Blends
  • End Blends with s
  • Soft or Hard g, j, c, s
  • Soft or Hard ch, sh, k
  • Digraphs

Vowel Inn

Construct 390 words with:

  • ai & ay, ee & ea
  • ie, y, ind, ight, ild
  • ie & ei variations
  • oe, oa, old, oll, ault, alt
  • ow, ou, ew, ue, oo, oi, oy
  • aw, au, augh, all, alt, alk
  • i, ei, ou au with gh, ght
  • Final e with a, e, i, o, u
  • Final r with a, e, i, o, u

TV Studio Compounds

Construct words using:

  • base & ball, foot & mat, ...

Castle Endings

Construct 290 words using:

  • s & es, s, ed & ing
  • y/i with ies, eys, ing, er, ly, est
  • Double letter or Drop the e
  • Superlatives
  • Possesive & Plural s, es, 's, es', '
  • Contractions
  • ge, dge, gue, que variations
  • shi, ti, si, ssi, ci, xi variations

Homophone Observatory

Construct 150 word pairs with:

  • ee & ea
  • ew & ue, er & ir, o & oo
  • r & 're, ts & t's, ere & eir
  • and more ...

Classical Temple

Construct 250 multisyllabic words using Greek and Latin roots:

  • anim, auto, anthro, arch
  • batt, cept, cogn, cur, cour
  • dem, dic, duc
  • fac, fic, fec, flu, frac
  • graph, gres, grad, jec, jet
  • jur, jus, log, medi, mens
  • miss, mitt, naut
  • ora, path, pend, phon, plic, press
  • stag, stat, stit, tag, tang
  • terr, vac, val, vis, voc

Prefix Rotunda

Construct 190 multisyllabic words using Greek and Latin prefixes:

  • de- & re-, ab-
  • ac-, ad-, af-, ..
  • dis-, in-, im-
  • anti-, contra-, ob-
  • co-, com-, sym-,ben-, eu-, mal-, mis-
  • uni-, mono-, etc.
  • ante-, fore-, pre-, post- ...
  • retro-, dia-, per-, peri, trans-
  • inter-, para-, ex-, extra-, hypo-, hyper-, sur-

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