Word Zap

What your child will figure out

• Match a flashed high-frequency word to the same written word without relying only on its first letter, length, or screen position.
• Connect the printed form of common and less-regular words to the word spoken aloud.
• Explain that quick sight recognition comes from remembering the whole letter pattern, not guessing from one clue.
• Transfer recognition across widening word sets, look-alikes, questions, contractions, phrase contexts, and faster generated rounds that resurface missed words.

The levels

1. Power-up words

   Predict and zap the whole word the, observe the exact match, and explain that every letter belongs to its recognisable pattern.

2. Memory sparks

   Recognise said as a less-regular high-frequency word and explain that its spoken form is stored with its whole spelling.

3. Rocket round

   Recognise where from a wider set before it floats away and explain how repeated whole-word looks build speed.

4. Look-alike radar

   Discriminate could from cold, would, and cloud by scanning the complete sequence and locating the decisive difference.

5. Question channel

   Recognise which among similar question and function words while connecting the printed word to its conversational job.

6. Memory code

   Store people as a less-regular spoken-and-written pairing among longer school and story words.

7. Story-space navigation

   Read between in a time-and-place context while distinguishing it from before, below, and better.

8. Contraction cluster

   Recognise doesn't as a complete speech pattern whose apostrophe and letters all carry information.

9. Pattern storm

   Discriminate through from though and thought under a faster clock by tracking the dense internal sequence.

10. Fluency transfer

    Transfer whole-pattern recognition to different, a longer word in a fast unfamiliar mixed context.