Jack, Age 12, Struggles with literacy, ‘ai’ mixed & kS3 vocab.

Example student: Jack Age 12・Struggles with literacy・Working on Unit 20 ‘-ai- mixed’; in automatic progression・Has been given access to KS3 subject lists too

Word list: chain, drain, fail, gain, grain, hail, jail, main, nail, pail, plain

+ Has access to: KS3 subject lists

Do you have students similar to Jack?

How to use Wordshark in the same way:

1. Let the student/s sign in and take the placement test, Shark Challenge
2. Leave them to be placed (by Wordshark) into Supershark, automatic progression mode
3. If you want to move them forwards or back, go to ‘Set Work’ and ‘Change Level – Supershark’

The word bank (course) used by Supershark:

Here is some information about the ‘Wordshark’ Course including pdfs.

Allowing access to other courses via Free Play: 

1. 1. Go to ‘Groups and Users’ then ‘Manage Students’
   2. Turn on Free Play for the student
   3. Via the ‘Select’ button choose which courses you want allow access to….
   4. For example, just like for Jack, you could allow: the ‘Wordshark’ Course + the Secondary Subject Lists Course
   5. (This could be done faster for a whole group under ‘Manage Groups’)

How students get to Free Play:

1. They should use the grey ‘Switch’ button
2. …and ‘Change Course’ if they have been allowed more than one course

6 reasons why you might want to allow Free Play!