Word World

Wow. I caught this show by chance one day and was so impressed I had to look it up to watch it again. What a wonderful and fun way to teach spelling! In this computed-animated show, all of the animal friends, main scenery, and "props" are made out of the letters of their word. You have to see it to truly appreciate it. There is a dog made out of the letters d-o-g, a house formed from the letters for house, etc. Heck, during a camping episode if you look closely you will see that the flames of the fire are made out of f-i-r-e. The adventures of these animal friends center around building items from the letters that form their word. For example, when the pig is "baking" a birthday cake, he grabs the letters c, a, k and e then when he puts them together, the word animates to form a cake (with frosting!) out of the letters. In another episode, the frog and dog are building a tent, and the tent won't go up until, after several tries, they finally sound out the word and put the letters in the correct order. The animated adventures are split into roughly 10 minute segments, perfect for the very young age group that is obviously targeted.

If the quality of the show stays the same as the few episodes I've seen, I'd buy this series on DVD in a second.

I found Word World by accident, and my grandson loves it! It's a great way for little ones to learn to sound out letters and form basic words. I also like how the words form the actual word (hat becomes a hat, etc.).

Bravo!

To be completely honest the only reason I looked this up was to make sure it existed. I honestly thought it Ming's have been a false memory or a fever dream. This show was insane. Not in a good way or in a bad way. I have hardly an opinion. The ducks were offensive because I come from the south and why are they made of letters all the animals who are sentient by the way are full of holes it is very disturbing. Do they feel pain these animals made of letters filled with holes forced to spend eternity spelling to make things appear we can tell by the baking that if you spell you can create anything there fore if some one would want to say start a nuclear war all they would have to do is find some letters and say N U K E the detonate it killing millions. All in all the show is very disturbing.

My 2 1/2 year old daughter absolutely has been memorized by the show since we found it a little over a year ago. She instantly loved Dog and Duck. Soon after that she was trying to "build a word" with her foam letters and easily started saying her letters.

Some of the best things the show has going for it are (from the site): "WordWorld is grounded in scientifically based reading research and incorporates the recommendations of the landmark report Teaching Children to Read by the National Reading Panel (2000). "

" Literacy experts and advisors in the fields of child development, psychology and education are an integral part of the WordWorld team and review content throughout the development process."

"The curriculum draws from four skill sets critical for young children's emergent literacy: print awareness, phonological sensitivity and letter knowledge, comprehension (including vocabulary development) and socio-emotional skills. "

It has won an EMMY and the Gold PARENTS' CHOICE AWARDS.

Hands down it is one of the best kids show that is one of the few that are top of the class. This is one of the must see shows on TV if you want your child to learn something while watching TV.

This show does a great job of keeping my toddler engaged and teaching him letters and sounds while I'm busy. Since he started watching this show he learned most of the alphabet and phonetic sounds very quickly as well as many vocabulary words.