Today, video games are the reward you give kids for doing their homework.
…but what if a game was the homework?
Introducing a 3D word game like no other for ages 6-15.
- Learn up to 1,000 challenging words per year
- Explore real cities, powered by words
- Create with friends
Players compete to reach the top of the Readerboard in an epic race to paint the city and build their dream junkyard eco-home. Developed with literacy experts and Hollywood talent, Word Tag combines action-packed gameplay with world-leading educational design.
Increase every player’s reading age
Word Tag’s methodology is designed to teach challenging vocabulary that boosts reading comprehension, advances creative and academic writing, and improves exam performance.
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Adaptive learning and player reports
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Made with world-leading literacy talent
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Develops creativity and resourcefulness
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Teaches Tier 2 vocabulary frequently encountered in school and on exams
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Trusted by teachers
Adaptive learning and player reports
Made with world-leading literacy talent
Develops creativity and resourcefulness
Teaches Tier 2 vocabulary frequently encountered in school and on exams
Trusted by teachers
The Building Blocks of Reading
Word Tag Curriculum
Level 1:
Kindergarten-Grade 1
- Synonyms and antonyms
- Shades of meaning
- Sorting words into categories
- Words for key text details
- Words for connections between individuals, events, or ideas
- Words to describe points of view
- Words for key text details
- Words to retell familiar stories
- Storytelling words: character, settings, and major events
Level 2:
Grade 2-3
- Adjectives and adverbs
- Collective nouns
- Compound words
- Words to talk about a text’s main topic, focus, and purpose
- Words for inference and evidence
- Words for connections, comparisons, and relationships
- Storytelling words: character, settings, and major events
- Words for comparing and contrasting story elements
- Words to understand characters feelings
Level 3:
Grade 4-5
- Use frequently-confused words
- Use words to convey ideas precisely
- Use context as a clue to words’ meaning
- Words to talk about cause and effect
- Words to describe points of view and argumentation
- Analytical tier 2 vocabulary
- Narrative vocabulary around character, setting, plot
- Figurative language
- Word choices that influence the meaning or tone of a text
Level 4:
Grade 6-7
- Use common affixes and roots as clues to words’ meaning
- Use relationships between words to boost understanding
- Words with multiple meanings
- Words to describe points of view and argumentation
- Analytical tier 2 vocabulary
- Words for interpretation of knowledge and ideas
- Word choices that influence the meaning or tone of a text
- Connotation
- Classic literature vocabulary
Level 5:
Grade 8-9+
- Academic and domain-specific words
- Grammatical concepts
- Identify and use closely related vocabulary
- Words to describe points of view and argumentation
- Analytical tier 2 vocabulary
- Words for interpretation of knowledge and ideas
- Word choices that influence the meaning or tone of a text
- Connotation
- Classic literature vocabulary
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Meet the Word Tag Team
Word Tag was developed with world-leading experts from the worlds of education, linguistics, gaming, and entertainment.
Educator, researcher, and education policy-maker in early childhood and literacy development. Chair of the Department of Teaching and Learning at NYU. Former Assistant Secretary of Elementary and Secondary Education in the US Department of Education.
Expert in computational linguistics, speech and language processing, textual information processing, and evolutionary linguistics. Professor of Computational Linguistics at the University of Cambridge and the inaugural director of the Alta Institute.
Expert on children’s education and media, and Sesame Workshop’s first Chief Knowledge Officer. Advisor to a number of US government agencies including the White House, the Department of Education, PBS, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Expert in linguistic semantics, and is In-House Pedagogy Lead at Mrs Wordsmith. MPhil in Linguistics from the University of Oxford and PhD in Linguistics from the University of Cambridge.
Advisor in digital strategy & consumer culture. Former CEO and Co-Founder of Toca Boca – one of the most successful mobile kids’ brands in the world with over 200,000,000 downloads globally.
Award-winning game design lead, formerly of Playdead and SYBO Games. Credits include Subway Surfers (enjoyed by over a billion players worldwide) and the critically-acclaimed LIMBO and Blades of Brim.
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“An exciting, effective digital learning tool. The only game kids should be allowed to play whenever they like!”
Professor Susan Neuman, NYU
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