Word Quiz — an educator's view
Word Quiz is for a child who'd rather think than rush. Every question has four choices, and there's no clock running. In grade 1, the child reads the word and finds its picture, recognizes the first sound and the number of syllables, and picks the rhyming word. In later grades, they practice word meaning, opposites and synonyms, “which one is spelled correctly?”, nouns, verbs and adjectives, simple and compound words, and in grade 6, verb stems, infinitives, and attached and separate pronouns.
Depth of vocabulary
Knowing a word isn't just recognizing how it looks; a child also needs to know its meaning, opposite, synonym, and word family. Word Quiz asks about one word from several angles, deepening the child's grasp of each word layer by layer.
Reasoning by elimination
In four-choice questions, the child learns to set aside options that are clearly wrong and choose carefully among what's left. This step-by-step reasoning is a skill that comes in handy in school tests and in everyday problem solving.
Unhurried, reflective thinking
With no clock, the child can read the question fully and think about the choices before answering. Children who tend to answer impulsively get to practice thinking first and choosing after, in this calm setting.
Learning from the glowing answer
A wrong choice just turns off, and the child tries again. If they miss twice, the correct answer glows on its own. That means every question ends with learning the right answer, and the child is never left feeling like they don't know.
A tip for parentsStart a “family word quiz”: have the child pick a word from their school textbook and build a question with three or four choices for you. Designing believable wrong choices forces the child to know the word's exact meaning.