Word Hunt

Teacher’s tips

Level of education: Elementary School

Age: 06 to 09 years old

In the literacy process, the child is faced with a world full of attractions (letters, words, phrases, texts) and will engage in this world much more easily if he can fully participate in it and if the process is transformed into a great playful act. In this sense, online word search games become an important didactic tool for work in the reading and writing learning phase, as it requires them to spell the words, looking for them in the diagram, making an association of letters and their sounds in words.

Pedagogical goals

• Memorize the conventional writing of words;
• Understand the use of the alphabet in the construction of words;
• Compare words;
• Understand the word structure process;
• Develop the ability to put syllables together to form words;
• Identify and differentiate the letters of the alphabet;
• Develop and improve reading and writing;
• Memorize the conventional writing of words;
• Develop attention, concentration and motor coordination;
• Automate the spelling of the most common words, using the word search;
• Fix knowledge acquired in the classroom;
• Associate the knowledge learned (on the themes of the word search) with those that appear in the game;