What it is: Wordia is a site that has been around for a little while, I recently took a look at it again and was pleasantly surprised with the updates. Wordia is game-based platform that helps expose students to a variety of words and vocabulary. The Wordia platform uses a dictionary as its foundation and blends learning games with interactive videos that teach vocabulary. Using Wordia, students build “Word Banks” as they engage in some friendly competition with classmates and other schools. The games in Wordia focus on spelling, grammar, oracy, auditory and phonics. This update has included some helpful goodies with schools and classrooms in mind. Games have been developed for educator led one-to-many scenarios that can be played on an interactive whiteboard or or projector connected computer with the whole class. One-to-one games are perfect for the classroom, computer lab or home. Word lists and lesson plans are available with both options for some great ideas for whichever situation best meets the needs of your classroom.
Wordia keeps track of student progress through a series of badges. Students work to build their own word bank and collect badges.
Please leave a comment and share how you are using Wordia in your classroom!
I can’t wait to try this with my students. What grade level does this cater to?
A variety of grades actually. I think it would work well for elementary- middle school for sure!
I was excited to try this site. Imagine my surprise when I found a clearly inappropriate definition of the word “Hollywood”. I have contacted Wordia and hopefully they will remove it right away but teachers, beware.