Another hit from EdAlive's award winning range of interactive board games!  Featuring over 3,000 activities across 16 progressive levels, Words Rock! will build vocabulary, spelling skills, grammar and punctuation know-how as they go hunting.

Playing the Game

Like the classic game of Battleship, players search the board to uncover hidden Super Slugs. Stay a step ahead of the other Slug Busters as you look to snag the most Super Slugs and win the title of #1 Slug Buster!

• Aspiring Slug Busters take turns trying to reveal hiding spots, with the aim of the game being to capture the most Super Slugs.
• Like the game of Battleship, players take turns selecting spaces they think may be hiding a slug
• Points are awarded depending on how close you get to uncovering and capturing a Slug.
• Throughout the game, word skills challenges are thrown at players, testing vocabulary, spelling, grammar, punctuation and more.
• Players need to choose the right time to draw on the stash of sneaky gadgets in order to give themselves a leg-up or bamboozle their opponents.
• With individualized challenges, elements of chance & those sneaky gadgets, everyone has got a chance of coming up on top!

Good luck & happy hunting!

• Battleship-style gameplay is familiar and appealing.
• Fun concept, fresh graphics and interface provide greater appeal.
• Collection of sneaky gadgets brings an added dimension to the game.
• Games stay close throughout, with points being awarded with every turn so that kids remain engaged and motivated.
• Up to 4 players per game with each player being presented with challenges appropriate to their age and grade-level.
• Challenges have been designed by educators to align to real Language Arts curiculum from Kindergarten through 8th Grade.  A library of over 3,000 activities makes sure challenges are always fresh.
• Parent Tools help parents monitor kids' progress and performance, adjust their levels and even create custom content collections.
• Individualized word skill challenges, elements of chance and the stash of gadgets gives every player a real chance of winning.

Words Rock! supports up to
4 players per game.  Kids will love the options that allow them to customize their characters.

In the Parent Controls section, Words Skills challenges can be further customized to focus on specific topics and categories.

The stash of gadgets can be used
to gain an advantage.  The Scatter
Search allows players to search multiple squares at once. 

Covers Curriculum Standards from Preschool through 8th Grade

• Contains over 3,000 activities in 16 progressive levels covering school standards from Preschool through 8th grade and beyond.
  • Grammar
  • Punctuation
  • Vocabulary Building
  • Synonyms & Antonyms
  • Homophones
  • Spelling Strategies
  • Special Pre-Literacy Activities
• Activities have been designed for a wide variety of learning styles
• Correlated with National curriculum - packed with a huge variety of multi-level, teacher-developed, curriculum-focused literacy-building activities

Vocabulary Building and Extending

Words Rock! soaks children in language - enriching their knowledge and providing a broad word base to build on, including idioms, clichés, word roots, borrowings from other languages, archaic expressions, alliteration, connectives, synonyms, antonyms, homophones, onomatopoeia, collective nouns, metaphors, similes, puns, tautology, irony and hyperbole.

Spelling Skills - Code making and breaking

Spelling becomes an exciting code-breaking challenge to give children vital strategies so they can deal confidently with the various building blocks of words. Words Rock! stimulates them to understand and remember how word parts fit together. Children are then empowered to make educated predictions about which blocks might fit where in different word contexts.

Growing Grammar & Punctuation Know-how

Grammar and punctuation skills are the essential frameworks of all written English. Words Rock! gives children the grounding and understanding they need to produce their own clear, concise, correct and meaningful texts.

Positive Activities for Early Learners

The preparatory activities in Word Rock! draw young children into using words in meaningful ways through play long before they master more complex skills such as using grammar and punctuation or handling pencil and paper.

2006 The National Parenting Center Seal of Approval

Parents liked how their children kept reaching further than they normally would in a traditional setting
    - Review by The National Parenting Center

CODiE Awards Finalist - Best Elementary Education Instructional Solution: Mathematics

2006 EDDIE Award Winner - Best Early Elementary Language Arts Software

2006 BESSIE Award Winner - Best Middle School Language Arts Software

2006 AIIA iAward Winner - Education and Training

PC 
Windows XP Service Pack 2 or later (including Vista), Pentium IV 600MHz Processor or faster,

Mac
OS X (PowerPC or Intel Mac) 10.4.11/10.5.6 or later.