This must be the single useful piece of software I've ever used in my ESL classes, and the only one kids really reacted to and perceived of as a video game interesting enough to be given repeated plays. Every 9-to-11-year old that tried Bookworm was absolutely amazed by how addictive it is - "Can I play this one on my phone, is it available? No - why not? It doesn't look like an old game". Later on I found out it was available online and on iPhone. Needless to say, I installed the game on all those defunct machines that were still being used in classrooms I taught in.
Serbo-Croatian/Croato-Serbian language is a language where spelling is 100% phonetic, so imagine the travails of having to persuade kids to learn the spelling of individual words of a language they're only beginning to understand. Bookworm, a simple game of stringing letters to get to real words while accompanied by a bespectacled worm, succeeded where I failed so many times as a teacher.
Serbo-Croatian/Croato-Serbian language is a language where spelling is 100% phonetic, so imagine the travails of having to persuade kids to learn the spelling of individual words of a language they're only beginning to understand. Bookworm, a simple game of stringing letters to get to real words while accompanied by a bespectacled worm, succeeded where I failed so many times as a teacher.
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