Updated   22 April 2008

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.