This video illustrates some of the more difficult question content available on the Edalive Word Rocks product. You can see that there is a challenge for every school child in the kind of content that is delivered. In order to win the game, they will have to answer questions correctly.
The idea of all EdAlive products is to create an environment of maximum motivation for all children.
This product offers a kind of quiz environment for children who will try to answer questions according to their age and level of ability. In order to win the game you need to be able to answer the questions well. Parents and educators can customize the questions which are being asked in the Quiz in order to allow the children to concentrate on the right areas of learning.
Well folks I have been trying my hand at Game Creation and my first unpolished attempt is here.
You control the Player with the Mouse, and shoot by pressing the Mouse Key.
You have to hit the invading phonemes.
Here is the link to the game. Can’t work out how to embed it properly yet.
Phonics is a method of teaching children to read English. It involves teaching the association of particular sounds with the sets of alphabetical letters which can be used to produce those sounds in written words. In this way, children can learn to decode most words by breaking words up into their phonemic parts in order to work out how that word would be said.
There have been a couple of different schools of thought regarding how to best teach children to read.
Some educators have avoided phonics and advocated a memory-based approach in which children see words and memorize the entire word. This approach can work well for a while in that the children can be trained to recognize quite a lot of words and speak them out. But it has been discovered that in many cases this approach hits a limit. It would seem that many times when the child so taught reaches the age of 9 or so, his brain runs out of “space” to keep memorizing new words in this way. If the child has not learned to decode words by breaking them down into their constituent syllables, they may have trouble progressing further with their reading skills.
Current educational theory advocates that children be taught to read through phonics. There are a growing number of software packages that can be used by parents and schools to impart literacy skills to their children.
Ed Alive offers some excellent software packages on CD to enable children to learn to read effectively. The big plus with the Ed Alive products is the way game play is integrated as a reward for children who successfully answer questions. This keeps children highly motivated to continue their learning journey.
