Word World: Bricks for Building Language Skills
Guest post from: Jerald Hammond
Imagine that you live in a world filled with letters - lots of them. The house you live in is shaped like the letters H-O-U-S-E all smashed together. But that's only the beginning. Word World is filled with letters that form objects and beings. That's why Word World is my favorite children's educational programming.
I regularly sit down with my kids to watch Word World on satellite TV that we got after seeing this Direct TV comparison to see what crazy antics the main characters - Dog, Duck, Sheep, Frog, and Pig - are doing while they teach children about putting letters together to form words.
Whether kids are starting to recognize letters or beginning to read, Word World teaches the fundamentals of the English language and basic problem solving skills.
Each episode features one of the main characters in a situation that needs to be fixed.
For instance, Duck was invited to a sleepover, but he wasn't comfortable sleeping in a regular bed. After some trial and error, the other characters helped Duck come up with a solution to make him more comfortable. Duck's friends found the letters N-E-S-T, put them together, and made a cozy nest for Duck to sleep in.
The show taught my kids to recognize words before starting school. Without a doubt, Word World gets high marks from me.
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