Word World ~ Early Literacy made fun!

The Week of Love for kids......

Thanks to Family Review Network and WordWorld we got a sweet WordWorld video to watch.
WordWorld is a great animated program that teaches children about words and spelling. Everything in WordWorld is made up of letters. The animals are characters, but their body is made up of the letters that spell what they are. So the children learn the word association so much easier because they see the duck and see the spelling of duck each time they see the duck. In the shows they cast has goofy problems to solve that always end in spelling a word to make an object.

WordWorld is starting their second season on February 13th with a sweet Valentine's episode. The February 13th program features two episodes with a musical short in between.


Episode details:
1. My Fuzzy Valentine: When Sheep decides she wants to make a special Valentine song for her friend Bear, she runs into trouble finding just the right rhyming word. With the help of Fly, she discovers the perfect ending to her song and gives Bear a special Valentine’s Day gift.
2. Fruit Cha Cha: short musical number with Crab and Duck singing a song to Shark about choosing healthy foods as snacks.
3. Love, Bug: Bug wants to sign his name on his Valentine to his special WordFriend, but he doesn’t know how. With lots of help and encouragement from Frog, he learns how to trace letters to spell out his name, and surprises his special WordFriend with a signed Valentine.

Look at the results of this study:

New York, NY (December 11, 2008) - A U.S. Department of Education funded study
found that WordWorld, an Emmy® winning PBS KIDS series, significantly
strengthens early literacy skills in preschoolers, providing the building blocks
essential for learning how to read. The study is part of the Ready To Learn
Initiative that examines the effectiveness of various technologies being used to
enhance the literacy skills of young children. The initial findings conclude
that regular exposure to WordWorld resulted in children experiencing significant
increases in oral vocabulary, reading and recognition of words featured in the
show. WordWorld brings words to life through a patent-pending methodology that
embeds words into the objects they represent, crystallizing the connection
between letters, sounds and words.Overall gains from the study demonstrate that
regardless of demographic, children developed important early literacy skills by
watching WordWorld during the trial period.

Key findings include:

· Children doubled their oral vocabulary skills of words featured in WordWorld

· Children tripled their ability to read specific words featured and built in WordWorld

· Children in disadvantaged households where English is a second language showed
gains in phonemic awareness, as well as oral vocabulary and reading words
featured in WordWorld.