WordFound

See, Touch, and Learn the link between Sounds and Letters in words

WordFound is Interactive Phonemic Awareness Training - With Letters! For both Decoding and Spelling

Why teach phonemic awareness with letters? Because it is the most effective method!

The United States National Reading Panel found that "the characteristics of phonemic awareness training found to be most effective in enhancing phonemic awareness, reading, and spelling skills included explicitly and systematically teaching children to manipulate phonemes with letters." [1]

Why is it effective? Because "Phonemic Awareness training with letters helps learners determine how phonemes match up to graphemes within words and thus facilitates transfer to reading and spelling.” [2]

Simply put: “Teaching children to blend phonemes with letters helps them decode. Teaching children phonemic segmentation with letters helps them spell.” [2]

WordFound can help.

- Over six thousand instructionally-appropriate words
- Real words
- Pseudo/Nonsense words
- Multiple syllable types: CVC, VC, VCC, CVCC and CCVC
- Designed for small group instruction
- Tiered groups of vowel and consonant sounds
- Accommodate a range of skill levels
- Vowel groups from simple Short Vowels up to Diphthongs and more
- Consonant groups from simple Unigraphs up to Silent Letters
- Quickly configure word pattern by typing an example word
- Easily create word lists and sequences based on selected patterns
- Perform and undo phoneme substitutions
- See grapheme changes in words
- Learn spelling patterns as neighbor sounds are re-spelled



Sources:
[1] https://www.nichd.nih.gov/publications/pubs/nrp/Pages/findings.aspx
[2] https://www.nichd.nih.gov/publications/pubs/nrp/Documents/report.pdf