How Can Teachers Use It?
The app would be a fun treat after a successful day in the classroom, or a way to warm up kids for a more serious lesson.
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What's It Like?
Sight Words Hangman is an app allowing emerging readers to practice sight words in a familiar guessing-game format. In the game, a word is spoken from one of 45 lists of 10 sight words, and four choices appear. Kids choose the word they think is correct from those choices (which typically vary quite a bit from one another; no attempts are made here to "trick" kids into choosing the wrong word). A score is kept in the upper right-hand corner so kids can track it. If they choose incorrectly, a part of the hangman appears on the gallows. Each list gets progressively more complex than the last; five of the lists are based on holiday words. A flashcard mode with a quiz option is also available on Sight Words Hangman for kids who need extra practice before playing the game.
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Is It Good For Learning?
Kids who have played hangman before will catch on to this app, although the paper version of the hanging man is far less spooky than this one. Kids who are bothered by mildly scary images may not like this hangman –- at all. Other than that, with no social network gaming capabilities, ads, or external links, Sight Words Hangman is a safe, contained way for young kids, or for students for whom English is a second language, to practice sight words in the classroom without much oversight. Unfortunately, multiple kids' results can't be tracked on the same device's app, and results are not displayed beyond the last game played.
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Kids choose the “Hangman” game or “Flashcard” mode.
Lists become progressively more difficult.
Flashcard mode can be played as basic flashcards or a quiz format.
Easy or difficult settings.
Some kids may find the hangman figure spooky.
