Word Splosh

Set in a watery imaginary setting, this game helps a student to learning and practice identifying words with specific letter sounds and sound-spellings. It improves phonemic awareness providing practice in hearing and identifying individual sounds-phonemes--in spoken words. With this game, students become aware of how the sounds in words work. Students must recognize which words in a set of words start or contain a specific phoneme sound as well as to identify words that rhyme with a given one. The student grabs the right answer out of the water.

The teacher can choose the sounds (e.g. specific consonant or specific long/short vowel) that the will student will practice. The student listens to that sound, recognizes the letter and selects the word(s) that begin with or contain that letter and sound. Students improve their letter identification and phonemic awareness skills as well as sharpen their memory skills. Students understand that letters and letter patterns represent the sounds of spoken language. The teacher can also set practice identifying rhyming word(s) to a given one.

This game also promotes visual-motor perception. The student appears in a room filled with water and there are 3 options of words that can be chosen by either hitting with the hands or kicking.

Are you ready to get splashed and hit or kick words?

Supported goals in

Associate the long and short sounds with the common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels.

Know the spelling-sound correspondences for common consonants and consonant digraphs.

Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words including family words.

Know the spelling-sound correspondences for common consonants and for common consonant digraphs (two letters that represent one sound).

Associate the long and short sounds with the common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels. (Identify which letters represent the five major vowels [Aa, Ee, Ii, Oo, and Uu] and know the long and short sound of each vowel. More complex long vowel graphemes and spellings are targeted in the grade 1 phonics standards.)

Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words including word families

Identify words with long and short vowel sounds for the five major vowel sounds.

Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words including word families

Know the spelling-sound correspondences for common consonants and for common consonant digraphs.

Associate the long and short sounds with the common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels.

Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words including word families

Know the spelling-sound correspondences for common consonants and for common consonant digraphs (two letters that represent one sound).

Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words including word families

Know the spelling-sound correspondences for common consonants and for common consonant digraphs (two letters that represent one sound).

Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels.

Know the spelling-sound correspondences for common consonants and for common consonant digraphs (two letters that represent one sound).

Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels.

Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words including word families

Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words including family words.

Associate the long and short sounds with the common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels.

Know the spelling-sound correspondences for common consonants and consonant digraphs.

Associate long and short sounds of the five major vowels with their common spellings.

Know the spelling-sound correspondences for common consonants and for common consonant digraphs (two letters that represent one sound).

Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words including word families

No supported goals.

Distinguishing between long and short vowel sounds in one-syllable words.

Spelling words using sound-spelling patterns.

Producing a series of rhyming words.

Spelling high-frequency words from a research-based list.

Decoding words with initial and final consonant blends, digraphs, and trigraphs.

Know the spelling-sound correspondences for common consonants and for common consonant digraphs (two letters that represent one sound).

The student will use word patterns to decode unfamiliar words.

The student will match consonant, short vowel, and initial consonant digraph sounds to appropriate letters.

Settings

Setting

Options

I CAN statement

Music

Disable/enable background music.

Sound effects

Disable/enable sound effects while selecting an item.

I CAN understand that there are sounds when I choose an item.

Select hand

Left
Right

I CAN select the “Play” button with my left hand.

Time to select item

Time to remain stable to select an item.

Reduce the time if the child shows stability.

0.5 sec
1 sec
1.5 sec
2 secs
2.5 secs
3 secs

I CAN select the “Play Button”, keeping my hand stable for 3 seconds.

Timer

Time available to complete a question.

Disable if the student feels pressure.

I CAN complete 1 question within 1 min.

Timer value

20 secs
30 secs
40 secs
50 secs
60 secs

Number of questions

The teacher can select the number of questions for the student to play.

3 questions
4 questions
5 questions

I CAN answer 3 questions correctly.

Content language

Choose the language of the game content.

English
Greek

I CAN read the words in English.

Game type

Choose the type of game that the child is called to practice.

Phonics
Free mode
Spelling patterns
Letters

I CAN practice with spelling patterns.

Game lives

Enable or disable game lives.

Game lives are the three green lights on the top left of the screen.

I CAN understand my mistakes when the game lives decrease.

Show word

This checkbox shows the rhyming word in a textbox.

I CAN read the rhyming word I hear, as well.

Phonics category

Phonics category allow teachers to match students’ needs with content available in the game.

Vowel sounds
Consonant sounds
Vowels
Consonants
All letters

I CAN practice with vowels.

Correct choices

Choose the correct answers that the child should give per question.

1 choice
2 choices

I CAN recognize 2 words rhyming in _ee.

Phonics

Choose the vowel or consonant sounds that the child is called to practice.

short_a
short_e
short_i
short_o
short_u
long_a
long_e
long_i
long_o
long_u
oo
b_initial_words
ch_initial_words
d_initial_words
f_initial_words
g_initial_words
h_initial_words
j_initial_words
k_initial_words
t_initial_words
l_initial_words
m_initial_words
sh_initial_words
th_initial_words
v_initial_words
p_initial_words

I CAN recognize words starting with -m.

Spelling patterns

Choose the spelling pattern / patterns that the child is called to practice with.

eer
air
urn
oon
ow
or
aw
owl
ay
ee
ate
ie
eat
oo
ight
at
ip
ub
an
ank
ock
it
oke
ump
α’κι
α’ρι
ο’σ
α’τι
ο’νι
ο’να
ια’

I CAN recognize rhyming words.

Reports

Pie chart data

This shows statistics on the number of questions that a child completed correctly, wrongly and the unanswered questions as well as the success rate. Also, we can see the total time spent while playing the game.

This shows the amount of time the student spent on each question, the available correct answers as well as depicts student’s attempts analytically.

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Settings

Setting

Options

I CAN statement

Reports

NAVIGATE

EXPLORE

KINEMS

NEED HELP?

Word Splosh

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Settings

Setting

Options

I CAN statement

Reports

NAVIGATE

EXPLORE

KINEMS

NEED HELP?

CONNECT WITH US

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