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WordSort
WordSort is a word study educational software program for teaching reading and teaching spelling. Recommended in Words Their Way by Marcia Invernizzi, Shane Templeton and Donald Bear, WordSort was originally conceived by the late Dr. Edmund H. Henderson, director of the University of Virginia's McGuffey Reading Center and International Reading Association Outstanding Teacher Educator in Reading in 1990. WordSort is also featured in an article by Dr. Jeffrey Cantrell in the September 99 issue of the Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy. WordSort provides exercise in the rapid identification of the different sound/pattern groups, leading to improved phonemic awareness. An early version of WordSort was the subject of an article in Reading Psychology in which it was shown to significantly increase reading comprehension. Please click the links above for more information or to download the software. Our Review: A lot of work has gone into the theory of WordSort with specialists in literacy and learning lending their knowledge to help create a truly valuable learning tool - if only they'd spent a little effort on the actual software itself, for WordSort is an extremely shoddy program. From the dated looks and odd controls to the awkward way you have to quit out of the program to begin a new game WordSort shows every sign of being 10 years old. The games themselves consist of the player sorting the words which appear into two lists depending on their beginning syllable or internal vowel sounds etc. They play well but are all rather similar, and for those outside of America some of the questions may be a bit offputting (since when do Grass and Grab have the same vowel sound!). All in all WordSort has it's heart and mind in the right place but fails in the execution. Disappointing.
Licence: Shareware - 30 Days Trial Version: 2.81 OS: Windows 95/98 Date: 2000/01/02 Developer: Henderson Educational Software Size: 1.04 MB		Free download
Yippee Ratings Breakdown (5 is best): Installation: 2 Interface: 2 Functionality: 2 Documentation: 2