• •Covers everything from letters and sounds to reading full sentences.
• •Designed in collaboration with leading academics.
• •Complements all synthetic phonics programmes used in schools.
• •Computer version is 100% free.

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2. Next, hold up the cut out 'bed' magazine picture and elicit/teach the word. Ask one student to come up to the board stick the picture in one of the rooms (make sure it is the large, upstairs room). Do the same with the other 5 pictures, each time eliciting the word and getting a student to stick on your house so that each room has a picture in.

Kitchen/garden: not compound words so can't teach this way - just teach and chorus. Play the 'Rooms of a house Quiz' Put your students into groups (of 2-6 students per group, depending on how many students are in your class). Get each group to elect a team captain and then give each captain a piece of paper and pencil. As students progress in their literacy understanding, they move from reading and writing single syllable words (often with consonant-vowel-consonant constructions) to reading and writing multisyllabic words. Instruction focused on teaching students about syllables often focuses on teaching different types of syllables (open and closed) and what occurs when syllables join together within a word.

The kids absolutely love this game - and they're learning!

The game has been funded by the Usborne Foundation, a charity set up to support initiatives to develop early literacy.

Our mission is to help as many children learn to read as possible. The computer version is 100% free and we put profits from the app back into the Usborne Foundation, to continue to create new and exciting ways for children to learn.

To recalculate the formulas in a workbook when calculation is manual, press F9 or Ctrl+ = (equal sign) or select the Calculate Now button (the one with a picture of a calculator in the upper-right corner of the Calculation group) on the Formulas tab (Alt+MB). Excel then recalculates the formulas in all the worksheets of your workbook. Excel 2016 mac switch to manual calculations. Once you’ve turned on manual calculation, you can click “Calculate Sheet” in the Calculation section of the Formulas tab, or press Shift+F9. For example, if you enter July 5, 2011, Excel converts the date to the serial number 40729. This is the default date system in Excel for Windows, Excel 2016 for Mac, and Excel for Mac 2011.

The charity was founded by Peter Usborne MBE and his children, Nicola and Martin, one of the world’s leading children’s book publishing companies and Children’s Publisher of the Year 2012. He was previously one of the founders of the magazine Private Eye.

The game is for children in the first stages of learning to read, or for older children who need a bit more practice. Read moredetails about the three games.

The game takes children on a magical journey, meeting colourful characters along the way and collecting fantastic rewards. When children are engaged, they’re motivated to learn.

Boxhead the zombie warsspiter games. As they progress, they rehearse a range of essential reading skills; matching letters to sounds, blending, segmenting, tricky words and reading full sentences.

Find outexactly what the game covers.

The game runs on any normal laptop or desktop computer (including Apple Macs) and the app works on iPhone, iPad, Android and Kindle tablets.

Peter Usborne is the founder and Managing Director of Usborne Publishing, one of the world’s leading children’s book publishing companies and Children’s Publisher of the Year 2012. He was previously one of the founders of the magazine Private Eye, and was recently awarded an MBE for services to publishing.

An Exciting Adventure in a Magical World

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Create a monster and take it on an adventure through a magical world. Travel to exciting places, meet fun characters, play games and win prizes as your monster learns the first steps of reading.

Minigames help children to develop speed and accuracy of letter recognition.

A great way to help your children to learn to read.

I was stunned to see how much they enjoyed this. It blew me away.

Complements existing learning

For young children in the first stages of learning to read; both those who are on track and those who need extra support and motivation.

The series complements Phases 2-5 of Letters and Sounds and other major systematic synthetic phonics programmes.

Keeps children focused on rehearsing and consolidating what they learn in school.

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The series takes children on a journey through the graphemes; rehearsing recognition, blending and segmenting with each one.

Children rehearse tricky words, plus reading whole sentences and captions.

Can be played independently by children either in school or at home.

Each child has their own login so the game can track their progress over time.

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This is a fun and engaging way to help your child learn to read. My son warmed to the game quickly and didn't want to stop playing it!

Games for Learning

Games are a ubiquitous part of life in our culture, and experts suggest they will become even more deeply embedded in the coming years. Games help people develop a disposition toward collaboration, problem-solving, communication, experimentation, and exploration of identities, all attributes that promote success in a rapidly-changing, information-based culture (2011 Horizon Report). Research into the cognitive and socio-cultural aspects of gaming has exploded in the last decade as people have begun to realize the potential for game-based learning (Gee, 2003; Salen, 2007).

Some games aim to increase content knowledge by letting the players 'live' the scenario. They may also create a sort of apprenticeship model in which players identify with experts and take on those roles as they move deeper into the game. Participation in so-called 'serious games' has been shown to help change attitudes and affect players' actions in the real-world (TED Talk by Jane McGonigal). Games seem to be particularly successful in helping people develop problem-solving and decision-making skills and encouraging innovation. Without a doubt, gaming prompts people to do a tremendous amount of research and inspires participants to spend an extraordinary amount of time on task.

Using Games in a Class

• Consider using single- or multi-player serious games (see gamesforchange.org) as a warm-up for an in-class or online discussion.
• Have students play and critique a video game for content accuracy (Civilization series).
• Design roller coasters and other amusement park rides to explore forces and motion in physics (Roller Coaster Tycoon series).
• Have students build and run their own amusement parks (Roller Coaster Tycoon) or cities (SimCity series).
• Explore global issues and learn to take on differing identities in conflicts (Games for Change).
• Learn team-building and collaboration in multiplayer games.
• Have your students design a game. It doesn’t have to be a video game.

Who Is Teaching with Games on the IUB Campus?

• Anne Massey, Lee Sheldon, and Jeanne Johnston ran an Alternate Reality Game (ARG) called The Skeleton Chase during 2008-2009 to encourage a more active lifestyle.
• Ed Castronova does research on the economies of virtual worlds and massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs). He calls them 'petri dishes' for economics and other social sciences research.
• Keith Dayton uses simulations in his business classes.

References

Gee, J.P., 2003. What video games have to teach us about learning and literacy. Macmillan, pp. 225.

Groundbreaking book on learning in games. Gee believes that good games embody good learning theory.

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Salen, K. ed. 2008. The ecology of games: Connecting youth, games, and learning. MIT Press, pp. 278.

Eye-opening book with chapters from some of the giants in the field. Available free for download.

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