“Lexis” provides a missing letter game where students practice their skills spelling words of different lengths. At an imaginary egg-packing plant, the child has to create “egg-words” which are words with individual letters written on each egg.
The student is offered an incomplete “egg-word” and has to grab the correct missing egg-letter(s) from a set of given egg-letters. They must place it carefully and appropriately in order to fill it in so that the “egg-word” is packed. If the student makes a wrong choice (wrong letter or wrong placement) the egg falls and breaks!
The teacher/therapist chooses the length of words that will be shown to a student as well as the number of missing letters. The teacher also chooses the conceptual category of words that can appear i.e. food, animals, months, etc. A time limit may also be set by the teacher according to student level and skill. The teacher/therapist can also activate the appearance of the picture of the given word as a clue to help the student to correlate a word with an object as well as improving the student’s visual perception skills.
Ready for egg-word packing?
Disable/enable background music
Disable/enable sound effects while selecting an item.
I CAN understand that there are sounds when I choose an item.
I CAN move a letter with my right hand.
Time to remain stable to select an item
Reduce the time if the child shows arm stability
I CAN hold my left hand still for 3 seconds to select an item.
Interaction mode allows teachers to select the action that students should practice on. It can be Grab or Time Delay according to the potential of each child.
I CAN grab and move the egg.
Time to finish making words
Disable this if the student feels pressure
I CAN complete 5 words within 5 minutes.
The teacher can design a training session with words that either have a specific number of letters or belong to a specific conceptual category
I CAN correctly spell words in list of animals
The teacher can determine the word length for students to work on.
Teachers can choose up to 2 missing letters
I CAN complete and I CAN practice phonological awareness 5 three-letter words.
I CAN learn American words from this game.
Item categories allow teachers to match students’ skills with items available in the game. These items can be changed according to the teacher’s preference and children’s needs.
I CAN learn words that are related to specific vocabulary categories.
Teachers can determine whether the hidden letter should be at the start or the middle.
I CAN understand that a letter is missing from the start of the word.
This determines how the number of possible letters that the student can choose.
I CAN choose a correct letter for the word from the 4 given choices.
This refers to picture hints on the top right corner of the screen. The existence of the visual aid, can help early readers
This determines how the number of possible letters that the student can choose.
I CAN complete the word that matches the picture.
Pie chart data
· This shows statistics of how many times the student gave correct & wrong or no answers, dropped the egg and how many times the student tried to find the correct answers
· The Time is shown on the top right corner. The teacher can use the time to tell whether the task is challenging enough for the students.
Dropped refers to falling eggs that were not placed on the rack properly.
Graph data
· This shows the time that the student took to complete each word. The student spent 10,8 completing the word FRIDGE.
This may show patterns of commonly incorrect letters or words.
Table data
· This shows letter attempts on a word and time spent completing it.
· The data might show patterns or misconceptions that the students have.
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