K-2 Elementary Literacy Activities for your Classroom
Energize independent practice time through scaffolded skill-building.
Popular Literacy Lessons from WORD Force
With WORD Force, you’ll energize independent practice time. Throughout the program’s 15 games, your students will enjoy a silly “save-the-world” storyline while receiving consistent, timely feedback on their budding elementary literacy skills. Check out the games the students are loving most below!
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Veggie Village: Letter Sounds
This game will help students gain confidence in matching sounds with their letter representations. In this mission, students will join Unicorn Man in planting a community garden. They will listen to the sound and select the matching letter or letters to turn on the water hose.
Cotton Candy Breakdown: Phonemic Awareness
This game helps students to develop phonemic awareness skills by listening to words segmented into phonemes (/b/ /a/ /t/) and matching the segmented sounds with the corresponding word. In this mission, students will join Captain Taco in an urgent call to save the city from the cotton candy monsters. They will hear a word broken into its segmented sounds and try to find the hidden picture that matches the sounds to clean up the cotton candy mess.
The Dictionary Dig: Vocabulary
This game will help students develop knowledge of Tier II vocabulary words by being taught new words and then matching the new vocabulary words to appropriate pictorial representations of the words. In this mission, students will join Octavia the Octopus in rescuing Unicorn Man from the center of the Earth. They will hear a word and its definition and then match it to the correct picture to help power Octavia’s rescue vehicle and save Unicorn Man!
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WORD Force lessons are aligned to National and State ELA Standards. EVERFI provides comprehensive curriculum guides and standards alignment guides to help you plan for implementation with your kindergarten or elementary students.
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Build a Strong Foundation for Literacy
Acting as the commander of a rag-tag group of superheroes called the WORD Force, K-2 students develop a foundation in key reading skills by leveling-up through fun and impactful elementary literacy games.
“The goal is to give students the support and feedback they need when they are working independently. We want the student to feel encouraged and empowered to continue the adventure that is learning to read!”'
Sneha Patel, Game Designer, EVERFI
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Skill Focus Areas Include:
1. Phonological Awareness
2. Phonemic Awareness
3. Letter-Sound/Letter Name Matching
4. Word Building
5. Sight Words
6. Vocabulary
7. Reading Comprehension
