Wordshark 4 retains the courses from Wordshark 3. New in Wordshark 4 are: - Many more games, particularly for phonics work - Ability to switch between “whole word” and “phonics mode” in many lists - Many new lists & courses to support phonics & “Letters and Sounds” - The ability for any child to be given work by more than one administrator/teacher - Admin / Sub-Admin for different levels of supervising user As with later versions of Wordshark 3, Wordshark 4 supports active directory logging in and is great with interactive white-boards. Useful Phonics Resources: See the UK DCSF “Standards Site”: Wordshark is listed amongst a range of phonics resources on this government site: http://www.standards.dcsf.gov.uk/phonics/programmes/publishers/ Our details, including Word document giving overview of our Letters and Sounds course are at: http://www.standards.dcsf.gov.uk/phonics/programmes/publishers/whitespace/ Ideas for placement
In addition High frequency lists are available and you can easily build up your own lists to suit your school. Common misspellings are available in the KS3 course KS3 Literacy hour lists are available in the KS3 course KS3 Subject lists are available – consider ‘read only’ games for these.