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Words Rock! v2
You're a street-smart Slug Buster on the trail of the devious, slippery Super Slugs. But there's one small problem... they can make themselves invisible!
As you search the streets, uncover potential hiding places by completing word skill challenges that test your vocabulary, grammar, spelling and punctuation. With your wily word skills, a few useful gadgets and a bit of luck you'll beat out the other Slug Busters to become the number one Slug Buster!
Words Rock! covers Language Arts content for Preschool through 8th Grade and supports up to 4 players of any age and stage per game.
Overview
Another hit from EdAlive's award winning range of interactive board games! Featuring over 3,000 activities across 16 progressive levels, Words Rock! will build vocabulary, spelling skills, grammar and punctuation know-how as they go hunting.
Playing the Game
Like the classic game of Battleship, players search the board to uncover hidden Super Slugs. Stay a step ahead of the other Slug Busters as you look to snag the most Super Slugs and win the title of #1 Slug Buster!
- Aspiring Slug Busters take turns trying to reveal hiding spots, with the aim of the game being to capture the most Super Slugs.
- Like the game of Battleship, players take turns selecting spaces they think may be hiding a slug
- Points are awarded depending on how close you get to uncovering and capturing a Slug.
- Throughout the game, word skills challenges are thrown at players, testing vocabulary, spelling, grammar, punctuation and more.
- Players need to choose the right time to draw on the stash of sneaky gadgets in order to give themselves a leg-up or bamboozle their opponents.
- With individualized challenges, elements of chance & those sneaky gadgets, everyone has got a chance of coming up on top!
- Good luck & happy hunting!
Key Features
Appealing to All Ages
Search-and-discover gameplay similar to the classic game Battleship. Players take turns uncovering cells as they look to be the one to catch the most Super Slugs.
- Players can buy and use a variety of gadgets to get a leg-up on the other players. Gadgets provide a variety of advantages, including restricting other players' search areas, uncovering multiple squares on one turn and get hints to hone in on a slug more quickly.
- Everyone has a real chance of winning. Up to 4 students compete at the same time, each at their own level.
- Supports Curriculum Standards
- Contains over 3000 activities in 16 progressive levels covering school standards from Preschool through 8th grade and beyond.
- Grammar
- Punctuation
- Vocabulary Building
- Synonyms & Antonyms
- Homophones
- Spelling Strategies
- Special Pre-Literacy Activities
- Activities have been designed for a wide variety of learning styles
- Correlated with National curriculum - packed with a huge variety of multi-level, teacher-developed, curriculum-focused literacy-building activities
Useful Tools for Teachers
- Content Management tools allow teachers to create custom aligned to their individual classroom needs.
- Smart Record-Keeping tracks each player's progress through the literacy activities showing points of strengths as well as areas that need attention.
- Class and Group management support for up to 2,048 students and up to 512 groups.
- Words Rock! is available in a Network Edition, with networkable administration and record-keeping
Learning Objectives
Covers Curriculum Standards from Kindergarten through 8th Grade
- Contains over 3,000 activities in 16 progressive levels covering school standards from Preschool through 8th grade and beyond.
- Grammar
- Punctuation
- Vocabulary Building
- Synonyms & Antonyms
- Homophones
- Spelling Strategies
- Special Pre-Literacy Activities
- Activities have been designed for a wide variety of learning styles
- Correlated with National curriculum - packed with a huge variety of multi-level, teacher-developed, curriculum-focused literacy-building activities
Vocabulary Building and Extending
Words Rock! soaks children in language - enriching their knowledge and providing a broad word base to build on, including idioms, clichés, word roots, borrowings from other languages, archaic expressions, alliteration, connectives, synonyms, antonyms, homophones, onomatopoeia, collective nouns, metaphors, similes, puns, tautology, irony and hyperbole.
Spelling Skills - Code making and breaking
Spelling becomes an exciting code-breaking challenge to give children vital strategies so they can deal confidently with the various building blocks of words. Words Rock! stimulates them to understand and remember how word parts fit together. Children are then empowered to make educated predictions about which blocks might fit where in different word contexts.
Growing Grammar & Punctuation Know-how
Grammar and punctuation skills are the essential frameworks of all written English. Words Rock! gives children the grounding and understanding they need to produce their own clear, concise, correct and meaningful texts.
Positive Activities for Early Learners
The preparatory activities in Word Rock! draw young children into using words in meaningful ways through play long before they master more complex skills such as using grammar and punctuation or handling pencil and paper.
Aligned to Curriculum References & National Benchmarks
The content in Words Rock! is developed from outcomes specified in National language curriculum documents.
Awards
2006 The National Parenting Center Seal of Approval
Parents liked how their children kept reaching further than they normally would in a traditional setting - Review by The National Parenting Center
2006 EDDIE Award Winner - Best Early Elementary Language Arts Software
2006 BESSIE Award Winner - Best Middle School Language Arts Software
2006 AIIA iAward Winner - Education and Training
System Requirements
PC
Windows XP Service Pack 2 or later (including Vista), Pentium IV 600MHz Processor or faster,
Mac
OS X (PowerPC or Intel Mac) 10.4.11/10.5.6 or later.
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