Games categories

Each game helps to develop a variety of reading and spelling skills – not only rote practice. There are games for single letters, phonics, syllables and whole words. After every third game a reward game is offered as additional motivation. 

Note that headphones can really improve the games experience especially in a noisy environment.

Games categories (in tabs)

The games are grouped into categories, with a tab for each category, as listed below. 

1. Suggested
2. Blend (phonics games)
3. Read
4. Segment (phonics games)
5. Spell
6. Patterns (auditory, visual & spelling choices)
7. Syllables
8. Sentences (putting words into context)
9. Alphabet

Games tabs (complete)

Students choosing games

Students can choose which games they want to play although not all tabs and games are available all the time:

Depending on the list and games cycle they are working through in 'Supershark', the automatic progression course, students are offered a specific selection of tabs (leading to games).

Supershark starts with games for blending, reading and seeing patterns, and then progresses to segmenting and spelling games plus sentence games.  Read more about Supershark

Key games in Set Work 

Students can choose from the variety of games. However, very limited games are offered in Set Work when a student hasn't chosen to play any of the 3 spell check games that Wordshark uses to 'test' whether to move them on to the next list.   Read full explanation at: 

Why are only 3 games offered in Set Work sometimes?

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