WHY WORDSMART?

EVIDENCE BASED

WordSmart is based on scientific research and personal experience in literacy, mindfulness and positive psychology. The incorporates essential literacy tasks which include phonological awareness, letter recognition, letter-sound matching, and sight words so children can build a strong foundation for reading.

STORYTELLING

Wordsmart uses the magic of interactive storytelling, the ways our brain naturally learns. Our fun and child-centered tasks are embedded in a fantastical story. Kids feel joy & excitement when joining our characters Tama & Tracey on their adventures. The interactive story motivates them to keep going even if tasks become more challenging.

LEARNING SWEET SPOT

Wordsmart triggers the children’s learning sweet spot. Our tasks stimulate the child’s analytical as well as their creative side. Each phoneme is introduced with a unique and funny short story. Children create a meaningful connection with the learning content. The young learner retains acquired knowledge better and learns faster.

WELLBEING

Wordsmart encourages healthy behaviours in young learners. We have taken learning-to-read one step further. Our digital learning environment supports psychological well-being. We use strategies to support and strengthen healthy core beliefs so that children experience positive emotions while learning.

Transforming the Reading Journey.

Competence in literacy leads to confidence in many other areas of development. Children at their best!

WordSmart is in partnership with Lexplore Analytics in New Zealand and Australia. In this short video Paul Blackman, the founder of WordSmart, talks about his bold vision for teaching and assessing reading worldwide.

Te Pae Tawhiti –Vision.

Wordsmart will transform education world-wide ensuring that all students regardless of wealth, ability and neurodiversity will achieve exceptional results using reading to foster and follow their passions to a level of excellence that enables them to reach their full potential.

“Kate has fun playing WordSmart and loves unlocking new worlds.

We have noticed an improvement her alphabet and letter sounds from playing the app.”

– Emma Heart (Parent)

Play Based Learning.

Contrary to popular belief children can use play and learn to read at an early age. The Lego foundation has researched play and have identified it as a continuum. At one end there is child lead free play and at the other end there is adult designed direct instruction play.

The adult lead direct instruction play is what WordSmart is based on. You can view Lego’s research in their learning-through-play white paper.