WORDLANDS HD – The Magical Word-Find Game

Wordlands HD-The Magical Word-Find Game is a modeled after traditional word searches. Users are presented with a grid of letters that they have to drag their finger across to form words. Unlike a standard word search, users can drag around diagonally, overlap, and create shapes around letters to create words. Each word creation earns users points that accumulate to earn certificates that advance users to new levels.  Wordlands is structured like a mission, with the goal to reach the “promised land” by earning enough points in each of the stages to cross the world map.

Instructional Ideas

1. Teachers can track students’ scores as they play this app throughout the year as a competition-based motivational tool.
2. Students can challenge each other to create their own word boards modeled after this app. With their created boards, a student can swap boards with a classmate and search for words on the classmate’s board. When finished, students can re-exchange boards and students can then “score” the other student’s effort based on amount of words found or length of words found.
3. After playing a game, teachers can require students to choose the “see words” option that shows all the words in the puzzle. Teachers can then require students to pick one to three words that they do not know and produce a Frayer Word Box for each word. Or, teachers can require students to pick one to three words to add to the classroom word wall.
4. Students can use this app to independently practice their spelling.
5. Teachers can use this app as a behavioral incentive for students to use upon completion of classroom assignments.

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